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Reply to Rising prices created the opportunity for U.K. housebuilders to extract larger profits — reaching £70,000 (at 2016 prices) per dwelling by marketrent

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Reddit_Repartee t1_jbecjlj wrote

Reply to comment by EnnuiDeBlase in Consumers respond less positively to new products when their brand names use unconventional spellings of real words, like “Klear” instead of “Clear.” Findings showed that consumers saw these names as indicating the brand was less honest, down-to-earth and wholesome. by geoff199

The Hungry Heifer burned down in 1990, so most people here never got a chance to taste their loobster...

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Nayir1 t1_jbecdq9 wrote

Reply to comment by nyet-marionetka in Oral hygiene, mouthwash usage and cardiovascular mortality during 18.8 years of follow-up - oral hygiene self-care OHS was associated with a 51% reduction in the risk of CVD mortality (hazard ratio [HR] 0.49 [0.28-0.85]; p = 0.01). by Meatrition

As to the edit, what we mean by 'mouthwash' kind of matters. Like certain types of bacterial infection can be exacerbated by Listerine and the like, where cheap as dirt hydrogen peroxide or simple salt water can be beneficial.

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Test19s t1_jbebqf3 wrote

Reply to Ice Age Survivors. Study focuses on the people who lived between 35,000 and 5,000 years ago and that are, at least partially, the ancestors of the present-day population of Western Eurasia, including – for the first time – the genomes of people who lived during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) by Wagamaga

IIRC modern Europeans are relative latecomers, genetically speaking, and the earliest human remains found on the European peninsulas are genetically closer to Asians and Indigenous Americans than they are to the Europeans of, say, the Middle Ages.

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dghammer t1_jbebolg wrote

Reply to comment by dblack246 in Consumers respond less positively to new products when their brand names use unconventional spellings of real words, like “Klear” instead of “Clear.” Findings showed that consumers saw these names as indicating the brand was less honest, down-to-earth and wholesome. by geoff199

A guy I worked with years ago, when the web was new, insisted that the reason KFC started calling themselves KFC was that they no longer served real chicken....he told me this the first time I met him and he said he learned this on the internet. The dude was a nutter.

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ojama10 t1_jbeb3dg wrote

Reply to comment by flaminate_strutching in Pregnant women and new mothers with schizophrenia are three times more likely to visit the emergency room as a result of being victims of interpersonal violence, a new study finds. About 1 in 5 (20.7%) women with schizophrenia experience physical or sexual violence during their lifetime. by MistWeaver80

In the article, it also references that the 20.7% rate of lifetime violence is 9 times higher versus a population without serious mental illness (~ 2.3%) (Reference link).

I reckon the difference between this and CDC's figures will be in the methodology. CDC using a US Population and telephone/mobile phone survey, and Khalifeh et al using a systematic review of english published journal articles.

Based on this and without completing critiquing the sources of data for the systematic review, it could be that the US has a higher rate of violence vs other parts of the world? Or the data methodologies differ that has led to this difference?

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giuliomagnifico OP t1_jbe9y8v wrote

Reply to Study finds increased risk in 12,924 young adults (20 to 44Y) for cardiovascular disease, like hypertension, diabetes, and obesity by giuliomagnifico

>This serial cross-sectional study included medical data and self-reported information from 12,924 young adults aged 20 to 44 who participated in the long-running National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted by the CDC.
The study population included 51 percent female, 57 percent white, 12 percent Mexican American, 8 percent other Hispanic, 13 percent Black, and 10 percent other race and ethnicities.
Wadhera and colleagues observed that the prevalence of hypertension increased from 9 percent during 2009–2010 to 12 percent a decade later.
Similarly, the researchers saw statistically significant increases in rates of diabetes, which climbed from 3 to 4 percent, and obesity, which rose from 33 to 41 percent during the study period.
The percentage of young adults with a smoking history was high and did not change.
In contrast, rates of high cholesterol declined from 41 percent in 2009–2010 to 36 percent in 2017–2020, a decrease the scientists suggest reflects government regulation of the use of trans fatty acids and other partially hydrogenated oils in packaged convenience foods and fast-food restaurants.
The researchers found substantial variation in prevalence of risk factors by race and ethnicity. Mexican Americans were the only group to experience a significant increase in diabetes.
Obesity significantly increased across all racial and ethnic groups except Black adults. While rates of hypertension increased among Mexican Americans and other Hispanic adults, Black adults experienced the highest rates of hypertension.

paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2802263

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Reply to Study finds increased risk in 12,924 young adults (20 to 44Y) for cardiovascular disease, like hypertension, diabetes, and obesity by giuliomagnifico

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thegooniegodard t1_jbe8jxl wrote

Reply to comment by CambriaKilgannonn in Patient with prostate cancer developed an ‘uncontrollable’ Irish accent, showing symptoms consistent with foreign accent syndrome — likely due to his immune system attacking his nervous system by marketrent

My mother was in a terrible automobile accident in the early 2000s. Due to damage to her temporal lobe, for the remainder of her life she spoke in what sounded like an Eastern European or Russian accent until she passed from bone cancer 10 years later. My mother was born and raised in Michigan (United States) and had no Eastern European or Russian background. The brain is a marvel.

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victorix58 t1_jbe89rn wrote

Reply to Consumers respond less positively to new products when their brand names use unconventional spellings of real words, like “Klear” instead of “Clear.” Findings showed that consumers saw these names as indicating the brand was less honest, down-to-earth and wholesome. by geoff199

The science of capitalism. How wonderful that we are perfecting our knowledge of how best to lie to "consumers" with advertising. What a wonderful world. A little bit closer to true satire every day. Like living in the movie Idiocracy.

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