In a Paris Review interview, she noted a preponderance of ageing spinsters in her early work.
A cynic might even see the preponderance of age-related illnesses that the young are beginning to exhibit - obesity, hypotension and diabetes - as plagues inflicted on them by the physical constraints imposed by an ageing society.
The probable reason behind preponderance of 21-30 yeage agroupoup in drowning is carelessness and adventurous nature usually seen in youngsters while swimming or doing recreational activities in or around water source leading to accidental deaths.
Where possible, we created groups, which were mixed by age, gender and ethnicity, though younger patients, more likely to be working full time with potentially different needs and expectations, failed to attend focus groups, and as the time available for recruitment was finite, this led to a preponderance of participants aged over 60 years.
The mean spherical equivalent refraction of all 1,936 children was +0.45 ± 0.02 DS, however it should be noted that there is a preponderance of children aged 5 6, 9 and 11 years old corresponding with Years 1, 3, and 5 of primary school.
Our multi centre international survey of over 10,000 unselected chronic cough patients shows a strikingly uniform demographic profile, with preponderance of middle aged and older females [ 25].
The age distribution varied considerably by payer type, which may reflect the rising illness rates across age groups, the effect (for Medicaid in particular) of eligibility based on pregnancy, and the preponderance of people over age 65 in Medicare based on age-related eligibility.
When all patients of Caucasian ancestry were compared with other ethnic groups, there was a preponderance of male sex, age over 65 years, normal BMI or underweight, atherosclerosis, vascular thrombosis, multiple thrombophilic gene mutations, a family history of cancer, and frequent multiple primaries (P<0.05), but no differences in regards to smoking patterns (Table 5).
In addition, the increasing preponderance with age, the equal occurrence of male and female cases in the ages 0 14 years and the predominance of osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma found in this study are also typical patterns reported in earlier studies (Parkin et al, 1998; Stiller et al, 2006a).
According to the National Census Register of Costa Rica, the CVCR harbors approximately 250,000 children between 0 4 years, another 250,000 between 5 9 years, and a total of one million individuals under the age of 20, with a slight preponderance of males in all age groups.
Among patients admitted to the Internal Medicine ward, there was a preponderance of those above the age of 59 years.
