These combine with diminished hearing and eyesight; diminished mobility and balance; diminished respiratory and kidney function; and diminished cognitive abilities.
In making the critical connection between high inequality and diminished mobility, I've often cited the work of the economist Miles Corak, who had a fine commentary on the topic in The New York Times on Sunday.
Selected studies have demonstrated less intense risk factor management and diminished mobility in individuals with PAD as compared to individuals with clinical recognized CHD.
The implications of such findings are profound when one considers the potential effect diminished mobility has for obese patients as physicians attempt to encourage exercise as treatment.
The main factors identified as direct disablers of oral care behavior, were diminished mobility and dexterity, disorientation, failing memory and dependence on, or lack of support from others, all of which have been documented before.
This may be related to a reduced thermoregulatory capacity and decreased ability to detect changes in body temperatures of older persons, as well as their cognitive impairment and diminished mobility, which limit their behavioral defenses.
The empty particles showed (1) altered mobility and staining on nondenaturing gel electrophoresis, (2) diminished mobility and a tighter band in sucrose density gradients, and (3) a loss of the 260 nm absorbance band characteristic of RNA packaged inside these tryptophan-free VLPs.
Nadal said the only thing that the change achieved was to "level things," by diminishing the mobility and control of players used to sliding on a normal clay court.
Crucially, inequality and diminishing social mobility conveyed the picture of unfairness with the higher wealth lining the pocket of less than three percent of the population.
In 1990, Tomas suffered a severe severe stroke that deprived him of most of his speech and diminished the mobility of his right side.
