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More than one-half million children were seriously injured by abuse or neglect in 1993.
Whereas personal saving represented one-half to three-quarters of average
In fact, the apoptotic demise (yielding double-stranded DNA breaks) of female germ cells throughout gestations of most vertebrates will encompass more than one-half of precursor populations [ 38 39 ] . Day 75 is the approximate time-point when a maximum number of oogonia is achieved in lambs; a nearly five-fold loss then occurs between Days 75 and 90 [ 40 ] . In some cases of nutritional deprivation cellular losses are accelerated [ 38 ] and reproductive performance of the female offspring during adulthood is attenuated [ 1 ] . Prenatal exposure to famine (1944-45 Dutch cohort) did not affect subsequent fertility of women [ 41 ] . Numbers of oogonia/oocytes and weights of mid-gestational fetal ovaries of sheep were increased [ 2 42 ] or not influenced by undernutrition [ [ 3 ] , present study].
She found that ED patients were one and one-half to three times more likely than primary care patients to report heavy drinking, consequences of drinking, alcohol dependence, or history of treatment for an alcohol problem.
The hospitalization rate, another population-level marker of asthma severity, remains substantial [ 2], generating nearly one-half of all US health care costs for asthma [ 3].