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Not only is there little (or anything) to be gained from offering a diagnosis, it can undermine the credibility of the author who is looking from a distance, and, once again, it generally is not a reliable predictor of capacity and functioning.
The validity of the current statutory cut-off ages will be tested by the same method, but using age as the predictor of capacity to provide informed consent.
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Uncertainty regarding the degree to which persons with schizophrenia may lack decision-making capacity, and what the predictors of capacity may be led us to examine the relationship between psychopathology, neurocognitive functioning, and decision-making capacity in a large sample of persons with schizophrenia at entry into a clinical trial.
Skeletal muscle weakness, in particular quadriceps weakness, has been shown to correlate strongly with reduced exercise tolerance and exercise capacity in patients with ILD [ 18, 44] and was found to be an independent predictor of exercise capacity at peak exercise in patients with IPF [ 18].
The MacArthur Foundation Study on Successful Aging, a long-term study of aging in America, found that education level was the strongest predictor of mental capacity as people aged.
My team has found that the coping strategies of Caribbean corals that recover quickly from bleaching in one year may not be a good predictor of their capacity to recovery from a bleaching event the following year.
However, their interpretation differs markedly from ours; they did not consider growth rate an important predictor of phenotypic capacity, stating instead that 'knockouts of these genes do not tend to cause severe decreases in growth rate' [9].
MRC score is a good predictor of exercise capacity.
Finally, the specific level of residual cerebellar integrity might be a predictor of the capacity to improve motor performance.
Shin et al. [ 1] found that fat-free mass is an independent predictor of functional capacity limitation.
At first sight this result may appear contradictory, since VO2max is an important predictor of endurance capacity [ 44].
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