Sentence examples for a heightened vulnerability from inspiring English sources

In this study, rural communities are understood as places with small populations, limited material and financial resources, and a heightened vulnerability to health service and health human resource shortages as a consequence of their distance from urban centres [ 12, 27- 29].

They include an unsustainable level of government debt, the high cost of imported energy and unemployment.As part of the wider Caribbean, the region has to contend with the impact of climate change, a heightened vulnerability to natural disasters, weak export competitiveness and the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

The newborn infant has, in comparison, low endogenous levels of these plasma proteins [18, 19], suggesting a heightened vulnerability to the potentially toxic effects of cell-free Hb and its down-stream metabolites.

Plunged into a heightened vulnerability and sensitivity, and tempted to cover it up or push it away quickly?

While forebrain-specific knockout mice display a depression-like phenotype in adulthood under basal conditions, heterozygous GR mice possess a heightened vulnerability that manifests only when animals are exposed to challenging situations through a specific external stressor such as restraint- or footshock stress [16], [17], [18].

Initial level of PTSS symptomatology at Time 1 was the strongest predictor of fathers' PTSS at Time 2. This suggests that an initial PTSS reaction indicates a heightened vulnerability over time.

Most probably, the reactions to stress reflect a generally heightened vulnerability of patients who later develop either BD or SZ.

The adolescent years, in particular, are a period of heightened vulnerability to reckless behavior that occurs despite the fact that adolescents are more cognitively mature than children [2].

Early life is a period of heightened vulnerability to arsenic exposure (Farzan et al. 2013a; Tseng 2009; Vahter 2008).

Due to lead transfer across the placenta, their children are at risk of being born with BPb above the CDC reference level of 5 μg/dL [ 3] and are being exposed to a neurotoxicant, for which no threshold for harmful effects has been identified [ 4], at a period of heightened vulnerability [ 5, 6].

Any single population that successfully reduces its burden of drug-susceptible TB will have reduced herd immunity to externally or internally introduced strains of MDR-TB and can experience heightened vulnerability to an epidemic.