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The researchers found that sitting was associated with a higher death risk after controlling for factors including age, gender, smoking status, physical activity, education, body mass index, as well as living in an urban or city environment.
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Because of a combination of socio-economic factors, minorities are at higher risk of becoming obese.
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Analysis indicated that women had a 14 percent higher risk of stroke than men, after adjusting for various factors.
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Several factors have conspired to push risk assets even higher including extraordinary support by the Bernanke Fed, relative calm in Europe, and diminished political uncertainty in Washington.
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These women tend to be better educated, more interested in health and from the higher socio-economic classes - all factors thought to reduce the risk of dementia.
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Clearly, the study reveals somewhat higher rates of breast cancer among female soldiers, which makes sense given those additional risk factors.
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Regression analysis has provided important evidence: a famous study of mortgage applications by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, for instance, showed that loan denial rates for blacks were eight percentage points higher than those for whites, once a large number of factors that affected the risk of default were included.
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