Heightened occurrence of asthma in Detroit and other major cities has been attributed to proximity to major roads, industrial emissions such as sulfur dioxide (SO2), and indoor exposures such as cockroach antigens.
Skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) are a common occurrence in health care facilities with a heightened risk for immunocompromised patients.
This concern has been heightened since the occurrence of Wegeners Granulomatosis (an autoimmune vasculitis affecting the lungs and kidneys) in a subject who received a recombinant hepatitis B vaccine adjuvanted with ISS, an oligonucleotide similar to CPG 7909 [21].
This concern has been heightened by the occurrence of vCJD apparently related to blood transfusion [ 11].
In the late 1990s, such concerns were heightened by the occurrence of CJD among three patients 30 years of age who were deer hunters or ate deer and elk meat harvested by family members (Table 2).
This sense of occasion is a heightening of everyday people and occurrences into a new vividness and significance not just the heightening of characters and events of the drama but also a heightening of the people who take part, spectators as much as performers.
The paradoxical occurrence of heightened, lucid awareness and logical thought processes during a period of impaired cerebral perfusion raises particularly perplexing questions for our current understanding of consciousness and its relation to brain function.
This species of spruce was chosen because of its abundant occurrence and heightened sensitivity towards salinization.
However, the use of tolcapone is only limited to fluctuating patients who are refractory to other therapies, and requires heightened monitoring for the occurrence of hepatotoxicity.
Factors such as increasing international travel, the globalization of food supplies and commerce and the occurrence of multinational epidemics including the 2009 Influenza A pandemic have heightened awareness of global health issues.
The co-occurrence of heightened pain sensitivity, sleep problems and psychiatric distress is common among patients with fibromyalgia, a chronic widespread pain condition that affects approximately 17.1% of RA patients [ 54].
