Sentences with phrase «relatively healthy age»

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At that time, Charlie still had relatively healthy (albeit weak) muscles and a fairly healthy brain for a child of his age.

On the basis of the current studies as well as previous reports on the use of intradermal immunization against influenza, hepatitis B, rabies, and other infectious diseases, 2,3,8 it is becoming clear that use of the intradermal route may at least partially overcome the relatively poor influenza - specific immune responses seen in certain at - risk populations, particularly the elderly, in whom the immune response in general is known to diminish with age.9 Moreover, in times of shortage, the dose - sparing intradermal approach might be particularly well suited to the young, healthy persons included in the CDC's high - priority group for vaccination, such as health care workers, as well as to younger, otherwise healthy populations in general.

«Our research provides some reassuring evidence suggesting that there is no determinantal effect of infrequent, relatively light use of marijuana on kidney function among healthy adults under age 60,» commented lead investigator Murray A. Mittleman, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a practicing preventive cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

The shorter - term single - dose trial is recruiting 40 healthy and relatively young (ages 21 - 65 y) subjects for a narrow safety trial, whereas the multiple - dose trial will be conducted in 60 persons suffering with PD (the trial protocol specifies the recruitment of idiopathic PD subjects), and includes subjects that are somewhat older (ages 40 - 80) and with a wider range of severity of disease (Hoehn and Yahr stages I - III) than were used in AFFiRiS» trial of PD01A.

Significantly increased global atrophy rates have not been demonstrated before the clinical (motor) onset of HD in patients with HD compared with healthy controls.3, 11 However, our results suggest that with careful selection of subjects relatively close to motor onset on the basis of their CAG repeat size and age, 20 it should be possible to measure longitudinal changes in global pathology within 5 years of motor onset.

Even in a healthy financial environment, in an age of lightning - fast changes to technology and the way people work, change and adaptation is a necessary — even critical — process to master for a company to succeed in the long term.A change can be relatively small (though some might disagree with this characterization), like

However, if you're a relatively healthy individual and expect to live a long life in retirement, the longer you can delay your benefits — at least up to age 70, when benefits top out — the larger they will be.

Shatter the idea that in old age you can have an easy time of it, while one is still relatively healthy.

Not Suitable for Healthy Individuals: If you are age 50 plus and in relatively good health, you would be better off finding a policy which does require a medical exam.

If you're over the age of 50 and your term policy has expired, you could purchase another policy with term life insurance coverage if you are still relatively healthy, but with longevity increasing all the time in the U.S., your coverage might run out before your needs dissipate.

Although our participants were relatively healthy, they included women with a broad range of ages, educational backgrounds and delivery modes.

Adolescents in healthy dating relationships — which are characterized as having «open communication, high levels of trust and partners who are relatively close in age» according to Sarah Sorensen of the ACT for Youth Center of Excellence — learn about romance and intimacy in ways that will help forge solid self - concepts, interpersonal skills and partnerships in their adult lives.

Given their typical age of onset, a broad range of mental disorders are increasingly being understood as the result of aberrations of developmental processes that normally occur in the adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation of executive functioning is adaptive in most cases, underpinning characteristic adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the development of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis of neuroimaging studies focusing on a range of psychotic and non-psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.