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The court defined viable to mean capable of prolonged life outside the mother's womb.
Slow recovery of blood flow has been used as an index of reduced vascular reactivity in coronary arteries [ 36 ] . The hyperemic response to ischemia is dependent on the presence and response to metabolic factors and vasoactive substances such as nitric oxide and adenosine [ 37 ] . The prolonged recovery of blood flow in our study could be due to either a greater buildup of metabolic factors/vasoactive substances and/or a diminished ability to remove them in the older subjects.
An interesting finding in this study was that the half time to recovery of blood flow was prolonged (≈ 28%) in the older compared to young subjects, independent of activity status.
There is some evidence that regular and prolonged NSAID use is associated with reduced risk of cancers of the esophagus [ 3 9 10 ] stomach [ 3 9 11 ] , ovary [ 12 13 ] , and female breast [ 14 15 16 ] .
The meticulous planning that helped the country to rise from the ashes of World War II to become the world’s second largest economic power has in the 1990s created a prolonged slump.