In this study, people with anxiety had a 26 percent increase in the risk of heart disease and a 48 percent increase in the risk of dying of heart-related causes.
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The index, which tracked online conversations from Jan. 1-May 16 in 2011 and 2012, also indicated a 65 percent increase in social chatter about flying and a 13 percent increase in references to driving.
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But at the same time, the drugmaker boosted prices for its meds in the commercial market: a 7.9 percent increase on Truvada, a 7.3 percent increase for Complera and a 6.6 percent increase on Atripla, which raises costs for privately insured and Medicare patients.
The fact that a 21 percent increase in the value of the Yuan was met with a 38.7 percent increase in import value means that the quantity of Chinese imports demanded increased by nearly 15 percent after the price change.
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One beneficiary of the service surge, the volunteer organization New York Cares, reports a 30 percent increase in prospective volunteers attending orientation sessions in January compared with the same period in 2008, and a monumental 75 percent increase from February 2008 to February 2009.
To roughly calculate, I build on a study of 120 countries by Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang of the World Bank that found that a 10 percent increase in mobile phone penetration correlates with a 0.8 percent average increase in GDP growth.
The study associated a median increase of 118.5 percent in this area with a 10 percent increase improvement in the intelligence of business data.
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Only 1 out of every 503 individual returns filed got a face-to-face examination in fiscal 2010 (a 4 percent increase in coverage over fiscal year 2009), while 1 of every 110 returns got an audit by mail (a more than 8 percent increase over fiscal year2009).
The increase in current spending from 3.5 percent to 8.4 percent alone represents a 140 percent increase in the last 3 years.
What we saw was not a 50 percent reduction, but in fact a 39 percent increase, because investment in wind energy through the Recovery Act fixed the credit market as it related to investment in those long-term energy jobs.
Thumma said the roughly 30, 500 members the denomination had in New England 2010 is a 20 percent increase from a decade ago, according to the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies.
They might be surprised then by a recent survey out of Brown University, which found a 12 percent increase in performance for a randomly selected group of 255 call center employees who volunteered to work from home.
Consolidated e-commerce sales increased by 39 percent, comprised of a 49 percent increase in the U.S. and an 8 percent increase in the U.K. Holiday sales for 2012 did not quite reach the level of growth that the jeweler saw in 2011, which was 7.5 percent.
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How do you get a 20 percent increase in share price from a 4 percent reduction in costs?
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According to Drum, these elasticities mean that, in the short term, a 50 percent increase in price leads to a 1.2 percent decrease in consumption.
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Year to date through July, BMW sales in Russia were just over 20, 000, a 31 percent increase over the same period a year ago, the company said.
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The researchers found that incentive schemes based solely on origination resulted in a 16 percent increase in lending compared with a high-powered incentive scheme, and reduced profitability by 5 percent.
The good news is that more than four million Windows phones were sold in the 3rd quarter of 2012, which represents a 139 percent increase over the same quarter a year ago.
The results showed that the people who had higher levels of infection had a 25 percent increase in the risk of a low score on a common test of cognition called the Mini-Mental State Examination.
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Last year, Wisdom Tree saw a 42 percent increase in new money flows as a percent of assets under management, greater than any other fund company, according to Morgan Stanley Research.
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Over the past two years, for instance, he has published studies maintaining the Chantix anti-smoking pill is unsuitable for first-line use (read here and here) and a meta-analysis indicating the mist form of the Spiriva inhaler that is used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease had a 52 percent increase in mortality risk compared with a placebo ( see this).
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Last year, GetGlue hit the 2 million user milestone and logged 100 million check-ins, which represents a 1000 percent increase year-over-year for a site that launched in 2009.
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The Citi, for example, analysts point to the Lovaza label, which shows the drug causes a 49 percent increase in LDL, while Vascepa showed a decline of nearly 18 percent.
In a meta-analysis of the research literature on alcohol taxes and their impact on consumption, Wagenaar et al. found that a 10 percent increase in alcohol prices would result in a 5 percent reduction in drinking.
There is abundant evidence that a 10 percent increase in the minimum wage leads to a 1 to 3 percent decrease in employment of low-skilled workers (using teens as a proxy) in the short run, and to a larger decrease in the long run, along with rising unemployment.
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He also informed us of a 42 percent uptick (year-over-year) in Asia-Pacific, not to mention a 12 percent increase in US education Mac sales (which marked the highest ever in this category).
Limited posted a 2 percent increase in revenue at stores opened at least a year.
And Novartis has shipped more than 36 million doses of Fluvirin in the US, a 25 percent increase over the previous year, according to a spokeswoman.
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The company said this improvement is principally due to higher auction commission revenues resulting from a 23 percent increase in net auction sales, partially offset by a decline in auction commission margin from 17.2 percent to 16.4 percent, attributable to the sales mix.
Privately owned retailers have seen about a 5 percent increase in sales year to date, according to Sageworks, a financial information company.
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