Sentence examples for maintained long term from inspiring English sources

Can training-induced changes be maintained long term and can they be extended to other related but untrained skills?

EDITOR SUMMARY Background: Implantable left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) have been used primarily as bridges to cardiac transplantation, although some patients have been maintained long term on these devices and a few have recovered enough to be weaned.

When myofibers were bioengineered from human myoblasts expressing FIX and vascular endothelial growth factor, circulating FIX levels were increased and maintained long term within the therapeutic range, consistent with the generation of a vascular network around the HBAM.

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is a well-accepted tool for the treatment of obesity and, compared to conventional weight loss methods (eg, diet and exercise) and other weight loss surgeries (eg, gastric banding), it results in considerable weight loss that is maintained long term.

Since T-cell function, thymic output, and T-cell clonal diversity are maintained long term in these patients, we investigated whether donor T-cell engraftment resulted in increased telomere shortening.

This is often found difficult and rarely maintained long term.

She has also maintained long-term relationships with clients (going on 10 years with Ms. Portman).

Throughout the 1990s, Andrea oversaw important work for the company's traditional customers, such as Ferrari, Fiat and Alfa Romeo, and maintained long-term links with Peugeot, in France.

Diane had a talent for friendship, and she maintained long-term connections with all sorts of people — eccentrics in rooming houses, freaks in sideshows, socialites on Park Avenue.

Moreover, genetic research is most fruitful within groups that have maintained long-term cohesion or isolation -- like Jews, Basques, Native Americans or American blacks -- groups that have characteristics associated with "race". This has led to some worry about the possible misuse of research, for example, among Jews taking part in tests about inherited disease.

Trained in sociocultural anthropology (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1999), Robert Albro has maintained long-term ethnographic research and published widely on urban indigenous and popular politics in Bolivia, with a focus on citizenship, democratic participation, and identity.