Sentence examples for existing impairments from inspiring English sources

In general, CMI serves to compound the already existing impairments in MS such as walking, balance, and cognition.

These existing impairments may make hypertensive people less able to accommodate the additional oxidative stress related to air pollution exposure and therefore could explain the enhanced effect on HRV.

For instance, TUG is known as an excellent outcome measure to identify the risk of fall; however, TUG is unable to identify the existing impairments in static or dynamic balance skills of an individual [ 41].

143– 145 A recently completed randomized controlled trial of ACEIs reported improvements in exercise capacity and fewer falls in 130 older participants with existing impairments of activites of daily living (ADLs).

Existing impairment rating scales are criticized for not specifying ADHD as the source of impairment in their instructions, leading to potential problems with rating scale specificity.

However, in the in vitro system employed in the present study, 1mT is used to prevent HIV-induced tryptophan depletion rather than correct the existing impairment.

Specific evidence for prior cortical pathology as a risk factor is sparse and conflicting: Frontotemporal dementia and early-onset Alzheimer disease (AD) constitute lesser risk factors for delirium than more distributed pathologies like vascular dementia and late-onset AD, while existing impairment in executive function, which is frontal cortex dependent, selectively predisposes to delirium.

However, in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study in children, neither once-daily OROS-MPH nor transdermal MPH appeared to cause sleep problems or to exacerbate existing sleep impairments [ 51].

Overall, these findings in healthy MA/O men and women provide critical preliminary evidence for conducting a larger clinical trial of sodium nitrite supplementation on motor and cognitive function and the plasma metabolome in older adults and groups with existing functional impairments.

OBJECTIVES: To assess the relationship of disability (activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental ADL (IADL)), self-rated health (SRH), and 6-year mortality with co-existing impairments in vision (self-rated), hearing (self-rated) and/or cognition (Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire) in older adults.

Further evidence using prospective methods gathering more detailed information about comorbidity may add to our understanding about the measurement of participation restriction as related to the number and severity of co-existing impairments.