Sentence examples for adults defined as from inspiring English sources

Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP, also known as primary immune thrombocytopenic purpura) is an acquired disease of children and adults defined as isolated thrombocytopenia with no clinically apparent associated conditions or other causes of thrombocytopenia.

Thirteen cases were diagnosed in children (≤18 years) and four cases in young adults (defined as older than 18 but younger than age of 30; 3 females and 1 male).

[C8.] Agency to Open Youth-Oriented Unit McCann-Erickson Worldwide Advertising today plans to introduce a new practice devoted to marketing to young adults, defined as consumers aged 18 to 24.

The researchers found that depressed older adults (defined as those over age 50) were more than twice as likely to develop vascular dementia and 65 percent more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than similarly aged people who weren't depressed.

In August, 1.9 million German adults — defined as people at least 25 years old — were counted as unemployed, meaning they were looking for work but had not found it.

As the magazine notes, roughly 45% of college students are adults (defined as age 25+) and adult learners have very different needs and priorities than younger ones.

Virginia's age of consent is clear when one person is under 15: any adult, defined as a person 18 or older, who has carnal knowledge of such a minor, including anal and oral sex, is guilty of statutory rape.

A total of 49 adult (defined as 18 years old or older) HFMD cases from May 2008 to November 2013 were identified.

We selected all adult (defined as aged ≥ 20 years) nonchildbirth-related hospitalizations to match hospital discharges to the categories available for state data from the US Census Bureau.

This case report presents two important clinical concepts: firstly, the presentation of chronic meningitis and secondly, the clinical presentation of bacterial meningitis in the older adult (defined as > 60 years old).

For the cigarette smoking outcomes, we examined ever becoming a regular smoker, initiating smoking on a regular basis at a young age (defined as 13 years or under), and becoming a heavy smoker as an adult (defined as 20+ cigarettes per day in the past 30 days) in comparison to never becoming a regular smoker.