Younger people have been disabused of tribal loyalties to party that are more likely to afflict older people".
But once low levels of self-confidence are controlled, much more likely to afflict girls than boys, the gap all but disappears.
But for those grappling with autism — a brain disorder that affects one in 150 children and is four times more likely to afflict boys than girls, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — travel is a trickier proposition.
But the American Legacy Foundation, an antismoking nonprofit group, has warned that refusing to hire smokers who are otherwise qualified essentially punishes an addiction that is far more likely to afflict a janitor than a surgeon.
The CRS report shows that very long-term unemployment is more likely to afflict older workers than younger ones.
Premature mortality, obesity-related comorbidity, diminished quality of life and higher health care costs are more likely to afflict morbidly obese individuals compared to their normal weight counterparts [ 3, 4].
Why was it, he wondered, that people most exposed to these supposedly noxious miasmas — sewer workers, for example — were no more likely to be afflicted with cholera than anyone else? Snow also knew that the concentration of gases declined rapidly over distance, so how could a miasma arising from one source pollute the atmosphere of a whole neighborhood, or even a city?
Aside from the most elderly in our society, older people in certain regions are also more likely to feel afflicted by loneliness – most acutely, in London and the North West of England, where 80% of people over the age of 55 reported feeling lonely, citing a lack of community spirit.
Cartilage fatigue, due to mechanical work, may account for the early development of degenerative joint disease (DJD) in the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), and why women are three times more likely to be afflicted.
Following onset of the disease, patients with T2DM become more likely to be afflicted with diabetic micro- and macrovascular complications.
