Furthermore, as many as 20% of strokes in HF patients may occur when transient myocardial ischemia or arrhythmias cause sudden reductions in cardiac output, leading to watershed infarction of cerebral territories with precarious blood supply, or of major arterial territories already compromised by coincident arterial stenosis (Howard et al 1987; MacKenzie 2000).
The fate of a quarter of a million civilians trapped in a Tiger-controlled pocket of territory remains precarious and unknown.The Tigers had nurtured Kilinochchi into a showpiece capital, to convince foreign governments that they were capable of providing effective administration for the homeland they hoped to carve out for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority.
Nevertheless, Abbasid hold over these territories remained precarious, especially due to the proximity of the Zaydi emirate in Tabaristan, and in 897 Rayy was handed over to Saffarid control.
The rise of a more contentious strand of politics in the territory highlights the precarious political reality of Hong Kong in light of Beijing's recent predatory air.
The killings also exemplified the precarious security situation in a wide area of territory just south of the capital, Kabul.
similar to those of China.8 However, with its lack of political control and precarious domestic stability, aggravated by a demographic sprawl on the territory, Africa could hardly represent a China alternative.
Despite working in the occupied Palestinian territory for almost a year, Israeli entry restrictions and a precarious security situation had prevented me from meeting my colleagues here until now.
Today, as over a million children return to school in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), an unacceptable number of them are facing long and precarious journeys to schools ill-equipped to receive them.
Human activities like farming and logging have already pushed many species out of their core territories and relegated them to the edges, where they cling to a precarious existence in less favorable habitat.
As the precarious ceasefire in eastern Ukraine remains in place, Tom Burridge reports from the frontline, in rebel-held territory on the outskirts of Donetsk.
