Twenty-four percent of females compared with 17% of males said they had used sedatives and tranquilisers, while 28% of females compared with 15% of males admitted using anti-depressants.
When they compared place of birth with allergic-disease prevalence, the scientists found that children born outside of the United States were less likely to develop asthma or allergies compared with those born in the United States: 20% of foreign-born kids developed allergic diseases compared with 34% of the American-born children.
Forty-five percent of marketers believe their companies shared credit card data, compared with 32% of privacy officers, and 29% of marketers believe their firms distribute social security numbers, compared with 7% of privacy professionals.
Today, with this release, Catalyst takes the sting out of the Queen Bee myth by presenting such facts as: 65 percent of women who received career development support are developing new talent (compared to 56 percent of men), and 73 percent of those women are developing other women (as compared to 30 percent of men).
Overall, circumcision reduced the men's risk of genital herpes by 28 percent (10.3 percent of uncircumcised men developed genital herpes compared with 7.8 percent of circumcised men) and HPV infection by 35 percent (27.8 percent of uncircumcised men were infected with HPV compared with 18 percent of circumcised men).
In fact, after adjusting for the effect of the other beverages, 14% of the heavier 2-year-olds drank 1% milk compared to 9% of normal-weight youngsters, and 16% of the overweight or obese 4-year-olds drank the 2% milk compared to 13% of the normal-weight 4-year-olds.
The bee protection organization COLOSS (Prevention of honey bee COlony LOSSes) compared surveys of honey bee losses in 2009 and 2010 in Europe with the rates of neonicotinoid application in the same geographical areas (in a separate survey).
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Jeffrey Immelt, chief executive of General Electric, also joined the call to restrict the use of consultants, suggesting that they may push top bosses' pay too far out of kilter compared with that of their deputies, which might breed discontent.
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Whichever numbers you choose, central banks' increases in dollar reserves have been large compared with overall foreign purchases of American bonds, and huge compared with the size of the current-account deficit.
The weight lifters lost an average of 1.4 kilograms (3.1 pounds) of fat compared to the control group, while the combination exercisers lost 1.7 kilograms (3.7 pounds) of fat compared to their sedentary peers.
The level of interest rates compared to that of our trading partners is about all that is mentioned.
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The first TV ads for C-Max, this fall, focused on the fun and driveability of the car compared with that of Prius v.
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In women with specific risk factors, a clinician should weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of alternative therapies compared to those of traditional HRT.
BBC: Some women are using alternative therapies instead of HRT
Part I of our coverage of the economics of college basketball compared the revenues of the top 14 rated Division I conferences as listed by the RPI ratings.
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Masahiro Kawai, an official at the Asian Development Bank, this week urged the region to prepare for a slump in the dollar, the probability of which he compared to that of a global bird-flu epidemic: it is far from a certainty but would have a tremendous impact if it happened.
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And one of the issues he raised was the idea that Iran obviously borders Afghanistan and has stayed relatively -- has stayed pretty much out of Afghanistan in terms of -- compared to some of the things that it's done in Iraq, for instance, in terms of arming the insurgents in Iraq.
One of them was later compared to the Alamo -- one of them later compared it to the Alamo.
That's a tiny amount of tracks compared to the number of footpaths open to walkers.
Although public debt rose, it remained low as a share of GDP compared to the rest of Europe.
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When I compared rates of return for muni paper and Treasuries with comparable duration, I came in second.
The number of complaints compared to the tens of thousands of Linux users playing Diablo III is simply insignificant.
In particular, the audit committee raised concerns about the low rate of prosecutions compared to the number of incidents.
On unemployment, the rise of 18, 000 in the number of Germans without work compared with forecasts of a 5, 500 increase.
Only 25% of men thought they would chance a look at this type of information compared to 10% of women.
Earlier, speaking of the second truth of tech, I compared the openness of Windows and Android to the closed nature of Apple products.
The survey period compared reports of infections during and immediately following the Academy Awards show and broadcast with those of the previous 72 hours.
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On a GAAP basis, LinkedIn posted earnings per share of 2 cents, compared to estimates of a loss of 5 cents according to FactSet.
It compared scores of 13-year-olds in maths and science tests, calibrating the scores so that a mark of 500 was equal to the international average.
It has been a quiet, relatively boring summer of trading compared to the swoon of late 2008 followed by the see-sawing in 2009 and earlier this year.
An earlier version of this story said that the growth for the whole of 2012 compared with the whole of 2011 had been revised from zero to 0.3%.
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