What was particularly disconcerting to Flores was that even when studies were adjusted for such things as income, the differences remained.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

U.S.states where more people said they got no physical exercise outside work lost more quality adjusted life years.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

The effect of a disease - or a condition like obesity - can be tallied by a measure called quality-adjusted life years lost.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Researchers adjusted their computer algorithm to the slower insulin absorption rate and on a repeat experiment blood glucose was tightly controlled in all of the subjects.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Black women,in particular, had higher rates of obesity throughout the 16 years studied, and they paid the biggest price in terms of quality-adjusted years of life lost.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

"In terms of the burden of disease, it increased for everyone, but in particular it was black women who had 31 percent more in 2008 quality-adjusted life years lost compared to black men.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Poland's speaker of parliament, Bronislaw Komorowski, became the country's interim head of state Saturday after Polish radio adjusted its regular programming to announce that President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria were among those killed in a plane crash in Western Russia.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10