Similarly, 20% of controls had combined CI/PI while the proportion was three times higher in those with sarcopenia.
29 The reason for this remains unclear, but may be attributable to an older population of Irish ethnicity whose proportion is three times higher than the UK population.
The proportion of women who present symptoms of depression in our sample is twice as large as that of women in UK general practice (26); for symptoms of anxiety, this proportion is three times as large (28).
Although this proportion is almost three times higher than previously reported [ 44, 45], there remains room for improvement.
In the implementation sample only 18 out of 170 patients were ⩾70 years of age (11%; C.I. 6.8 16.1%), whereas in the regional population this proportion was almost three times larger, 137 out of 509 (27%, C.I. 22.9 30.6).
More white miners had silicosis in 1975 (the proportion was six times higher than that of black miners) but, by 2007, this pattern was reversed (the proportion was 1.5 times higher in black miners).
The most notable difference between the ANU and ethnic Chinese students was the proportion reporting they would be probably or definitely likely to seek help from a pharmacist, the proportion being seven times higher in the Chinese group.
Magnified to Gargantuan proportions and repeated three times over, it is absolutely disgusting".
Large-seeded species typical of old-growth forests, on the other hand, accounted for only 5 8% of the species recorded in the seed rain, a proportion around five times smaller than that reported for the old-growth forests of the same study site (31%).
While in general the percent of the medical workforce specializing in rehabilitation medicine is low, less than 3% of all physicians, relatively large differences were found among the few countries with available data: the proportion was sixty times greater in Portugal than in Sudan, for example.
