It is unclear whether the enduring CNS cytokine alterations provoked by the perinatal chemical treatments (observed months after exposure) stemmed from cumulative/progressive time-dependent effects or a long lasting more acute impact of these treatments.
The pressures may well be even more acute as the impact of the economic crisis of 2008 continues to play out but, even as economies begin to turn around, resources within healthcare will be limited, thus some form of rationing will be required.
However, extrapolating the potential impacts of reduced rainfall on drought periodicity and intensity showed a more immediate and acute impact on the lizard's populations.
But Mr. Burrell and other African-Americans say the impact is more acute in close-knit communities like their own, where they say people still know their neighbors and loyally patronize locally owned businesses.
Perhaps the methods of measuring respiratory distress only captured more acute events, so that the impact of burning on indicators of milder respiratory distress (e.g., clinic visits, taking a sick day from work, and/or general malaise) were not measured.
This limitation may have affected our sensitivity to detect more acute effects of air pollution for example, impacts on preterm birth.
The crisis is even more acute because of its knock-on impact: these are often young people with no pensions, no social security contributions, diminishing networks, limited opportunities for independence.
However, more acute glycometabolic disturbances may also have a negative impact on patients' outcomes.
Cross-national comparisons make it possible to investigate whether the impact of social factors is more acute in contexts where preterm birth rates are higher.
If younger minority voters have valid IDs at a rate of only 50percentt, she said, the impact of restrictive ID laws is more acute.
