Sentence examples for children a proportion from inspiring English sources

Based on a survey of more than 34,000 Dutch adults 40 and over, the report said that 10 percent of them had suffered from some form of abuse while they were children — a proportion that doubled to about 20 percent among those who had spent some of their youth in institutions, irrespective of their affiliation.

However, we deem lean adults as better controls for association studies than lean children, as a proportion of the lean children might become obese adults.

Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of the deaths of children globally, "a proportion unmatched by an infectious disease since the Black Death," the bank's report says.

Overall, children as a proportion of total Medicaid enrollment held steady at approximately 55percentt.

In this cohort of children, a large proportion (74.9%) were boys.

Among the surviving children, a significant proportion may develop long-term sequelae (e.g. wheezing, asthma).

Although wheezing was a feature in 47% of the HMPV-infected children, a greater proportion (59%) of children infected with RSV had wheezing.

When asked about knowledge of effects of passive smoking on children, a large proportion (88%) responded that it affects children's health negatively.

The region affected by the tsunami is home to many of the world's poorest children, a significant proportion of whom were living without access to safe water and sanitation even before the waves hit.

Although asthma is often described as an allergic disease, particularly among children, a large proportion of asthma is not associated with atopy (30, 31) or might not be related to allergic inflammation processes in the airway (7).

In our children an important proportion of wheezing during this period might be caused by viruses and this related to the finding that only half of children wheezing before 6 months continued wheezing until 24 months.