But this produced mixed results, with one state showing a statistically significant decline in general population mortality risk associated with the Medicaid expansion, while another showed a statistically significant increase in mortality risk and the third showing no statistically significant change.
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Terrorism suspects or other defendants who might be considered at risk or a risk to others in the general population are typically housed in a section of the facility known as the Special Housing Unit, or SHU. Defendants in that section are housed one or two per cell and mostly confined to their cells, except for limited exercise periods each day.
Many in the general population carry some of these variants in random combinations, without any detectable effect.
Third, researchers have focused on so-called gene-environment interactions, reasoning that some exposures that have relatively weak associations with breast cancer in the general population may have a much stronger effect in subgroups with a specific genetic make-up.
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Disease rates in the general population often come from the CDC, whose surveys often involve people responding in the home or over the phone.
The report, which was also put together by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, points out that although rates of smoking in the general population have fallen substantially over the past 20 years, there has been little change in people with mental health conditions.
Worse, the employment-to-population ratio among this group is only 54%, as compared with 62% in the general population.
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The researchers compared the suicide and cardiovascular death rates in the study-- which were very low, in absolute terms-- with those in the general male population in the United States.
Right now, MRSA, in the general population, is killing about 19, 000 people a year.
How common is it in the general population, beyond the population of studied athletes?
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This preference for the coast was found both in the general population and among walkers.
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Among those aged 25 to 34, the rate is 13% compared to 9% in the general population.
In the general population today about 12% are left-handed, though populations vary considerably, between 3 and 30%.
Logically, we could expect a MAXIMUM success rate equal to the success we find in the general population.
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In the general population, 30% of people are Red and 52% are White.
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But these illnesses are, at least, known human illnesses, and are unlikely to unleash an epidemic in the general population.
In the general population 70% will conceive naturally within 18 months of trying for a baby and 90% after two years.
It's much rarer than in the general population because these are fit young guys, but you cannot pick up the subtle abnormalities.
Tobacco use among service members is higher than in the general population.
The campus homicide rate is about 1 death per 1 million people, compared to 57 deaths per million in the general population.
Additionally, only 5% of CEOs at top U.S. companies are technically obese, although 36% of men in the general population are obese.
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Overall, 4.5% of adopted individuals had drug-abuse problems as identified by Swedish medical, legal and pharmacy records, versus 2.9% of people in the general population.
In both countries, the percentage of people with an E-2 is about twice as high in the 100-plus age group as in the general population.
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As David Frith showed in his book "Silence of the Heart", the incidence of suicide among Test cricketers is far higher than in the general population.
In addition, pregnant women infected with H1N1 were four times as likely as sick people in the general population to be hospitalized for it, she said.
They found that the rate of obesity among the women, who were aged 50 when the study took place, was higher than in the general population.
The unit is for inmates whose safety would be endangered in a general population prison yard, and it still functions like such a yard, she said.
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But Maurice Ohayon of the Sleep Disorders Center at Stanford University, California, said there was no evidence linking chocolate to violent sleep patterns in the general population.
Among men with cancer that had spread beyond the prostate (metastatic cancer), the death rate in the first month was more than triple that in the general population.
Fortunately, this not the only study to explore the potential for reducing cardiovascular disease and cancer in the general population by promoting adherence to a set of health guidelines.
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