But researchers noted that boys on the lower dose did not decline in function.
Here the pattern is a general decline in function over years but interspersed with sudden dips from which you either recover or die.
The effects can sneak up on a person, he said, because even when most of the excess capacity is gone, we may experience little or no decline in function.
The postinjury test is quick — it takes about six to eight minutes — and shares many elements with the baseline test to allow a comparison that might indicate a decline in function.
Dr. Richard Steadman, who pioneered the microfracture procedure in the 1980s, said his follow-up studies — with patients who were, on average, 11 years removed from surgery — had shown no decline in function.
Patients may return to baseline kidney function following ATN; however, some patients develop an irreversible decline in function.
A decline in function can increase health care use, worsen quality of life, threaten independence, and increase the risk of mortality.
A biopsy may also be considered necessary if a patient experiences a rapid decline in function or, alternately, fails to improve despite therapy [1].
The causes of organismal aging are complex, and a variety of common processes have been implicated in multiple tissues as being involved in driving the decline in function seen with increasing age.
Alternatively, it is possible that hypermutability contributes to adaptation of P. aeruginosa within certain airway niches, or under specific conditions, such as end-stage infection when airways undergo rapid decline in function.
The mouse mutant confirms the involvement of cones and rods, with both showing a progressive decline in function from 3 months of age as determined by ERG responses; although, in keeping with the human disorder, the decline in cone-mediated responses was greater than the decline in rod-mediated responses once the age-related loss of rod function is taken into account.
