Sentence examples for impairments about from inspiring English sources

Only children with mild learning difficulties and some children with physical impairments, about 8,300 in all, attend one of the 233 special schools operating in Serbia.

The physical impairment brought about by the loss of natural teeth represents a chronic disability because it negatively impacts on daily living activities, such as eating and speaking.

In general, Dr. Reisberg said, "mild cognitive impairment lasts about seven years before it begins to interfere with the activities of daily life".

The risk to cognitive impairment is about twice as high for blacks and Hispanics as for whites (not significant for Hispanics aged 75+).

In an NHANES analysis, hearing impairment was about twice as great in people with diabetes than in those without diabetes, after adjusting for age and other risk factors for hearing impairment (342).

Peripheral neuropathy was experienced by 25% and peripheral arterial disease by 9% of those with high-frequency hearing impairment, about four times the prevalence of these complications among those not impaired.

The encouraging news: people who treated their sleep breathing problems with a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine were diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment about 10 years later than people whose problems were not treated.

Among patients diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, about 60% have amyloid plaques and will go on to develop dementia that is likely Alzheimer's disease, said Dr. Michael W. Weiner of the Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Imagingg of Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Furthermore, they were more likely to have vision impairment (about 32% vs 22%), scored substantially higher on cognitive impairment (about 27% versus 6%), were twice as likely to have clinically relevant depressive symptoms (about 24% versus 12%) and to perceive their health as fair to poor (about 58% versus 35%) as compared to the survivors.

The hemispheric CE group also showed deficit in working memory (digit span: -1.29 SD) and an impairment about -1 SD below normal mean in the word and colour Stroop-conditions, but interference was not impaired (-0.6 SD).

Two recent studies that used the RIFLE criteria to investigate colistin-related nephrotoxicity [ 25, 26] documented high incidences of mild renal impairment (about 43%) in both cohorts (even though the two populations differed in terms of illness severity).