impair
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Measures of heart function, including contraction strength and beating rhythm, were impaired by the cytokines but improved once the signaling was blocked.
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“This behavior inexorably causes waste, regulatory action that impairs operation and investment, and reduction of the intrinsic value” of the injection resource, they said.
While stress remains in certain sectors, overall asset quality should improve further, with industry gross impaired loans now below prepandemic levels, she adds.
In typical cases, the exposure damages the brain’s frontal lobe, which slows cognition, impairs impulse control, restricts dopamine production and affects mood.
What happens if you aren’t impaired, but the car decides you are?
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