News tagged with demographic factors
Study: Bankruptcy rates reflect policy, not people
Jun 22, 2009 |
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What do high bankruptcy rates in states like Tennessee and Utah tell us about the people that live in those places? Not much, according to a new 50-state bankruptcy study published in the latest issue of the Journal of La ...
Study indicates people by nature are universally optimistic
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May 24, 2009 |
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Despite calamities from economic recessions, wars and famine to a flu epidemic afflicting the Earth, a new study from the University of Kansas and Gallup indicates that humans are by nature optimistic.
Certain states more aggressive with anti-smoking policies
Apr 08, 2009 |
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A new study published in the journal Contemporary Economic Policy assesses the impact of state attributes on the likelihood that a state adopts policies to limit youth access to tobacco. Across nine different measures of you ...
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Researchers Unable to Agree on Predictors of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
Jun 30, 2008 |
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Studies exploring potential predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD) following major trauma have resulted in varied conclusions. While a number of risk factors such as injury severity, demographic factors and compensation-related ...
Extreme nausea and vomiting varies among pregnant women from different countries
Apr 25, 2008 |
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Mothers born in India and Sri Lanka are three times more likely to suffer from extreme nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (hyperemesis gravidarum) than ethnic Norwegians. This finding comes from the Norwegian Institute of Public ...
Older women more likely to become, remain depressed than older men
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Feb 04, 2008 |
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Older women appear more susceptible to depression and more likely to stay depressed but less likely to die while depressed than older men, factors that contribute to the higher burden of depression among older women, according ...
Depression twice as likely in seizure sufferers
Mar 16, 2009 |
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A new study published in Epilepsia finds that the prevalence of depression is almost twice as high in people with epilepsy compared to the general population. Among those with epilepsy, racial minorities have seven times ...
Obesity contributes to rapid cartilage loss
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Obesity, among other factors, is strongly associated with an increased risk of rapid cartilage loss, according to a study published in the August issue of Radiology.
Study Pinpoints Links of Depression with Chronic Pain
Jun 17, 2009 |
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It is well known that chronic pain and clinical depression go together, but a study in The Journal of Pain, published by the American Pain Society, shows that the connection between pain and depression is strongest in mid ...
Kidney disease increases the risk of stroke in patients
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Chronic kidney disease increases the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common type of heart arrhythmia, according to a new study by Kaiser Permanente researchers in the current online issue ...
Geography and history shape genetic differences in humans
Jun 05, 2009 |
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New research indicates that natural selection may shape the human genome much more slowly than previously thought. Other factors -- the movements of humans within and among continents, the expansions and contractions of populations, ...
Risk factors of cardiovascular disease rising in poor, young
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Cardiovascular disease is increasing in adults under 50 and those of lower socioeconomic status, despite recent trends which show that cardiovascular disease is declining in Canada overall, say researchers at the Peter Munk ...
'Triple negative' breast cancers linked to the young, minority
Mar 26, 2007 |
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So-called “triple negative” breast cancers, tumors that do not contain any of three significant tumor markers, are aggressive, deadly cancers that affect young, poor minority women, according to a new study.
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