The results presented yesterday emerged from extensive figures collected in 2001.
But even before the law takes effect, figures collected by Public Citizen, the group founded by Ralph Nader, show that independent groups are already raising large sums.
And figures collected by the federal government show that court judgments in malpractice cases have not risen nearly as fast as some advocates of new limits have asserted.
That contrasts with the situation in the United States, where figures collected by the Federal Reserve have shown an abrupt contraction of credit since August.
In conducting the Johns Hopkins research, Dr. Beyrer and his team looked at the government's own figures collected at clinics and hospitals.
In year six, just before children leave primary school, 20% of boys and 17% of girls were obese, according to figures collected by the child measurement programme.
Moreover, according to figures collected by the organization, only about a dozen states tie their tax to inflation, which means that the revenue loses ground every year.
Breast enlargement remains the most popular procedure, with 11,135 augmentations performed in 2013 – up 13% year-on-year – according to figures collected by the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS).
Reliable data is difficult to get in the DRC, but figures collected by the UN population fund ( UNFPA) indicate that incidents of gender-based violence have decreased from 19,937 in 2013 to 19,192 in 2015 – a 4% drop.
Over the past year, they have totalled £17m, and included machine guns, hand grenades, and military training equipment, according to official figures collected by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (Caat).
Figures collected from London boroughs indicate that approval has been granted for at least 7,000 dwellings in schemes of 10 or more units, which would ordinarily support as many as 1,000 affordable homes.
