The phrase "a heightened vulnerability to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an increased susceptibility to certain risks, threats, or negative outcomes.
Example: "The recent changes in climate have led to a heightened vulnerability to natural disasters in coastal regions."
Alternatives: "an increased susceptibility to" or "a greater exposure to".
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.
There is consensus that the core feature of frailty is a heightened vulnerability to stressors (for a given chronological age and sex), which leads to an increased risk for multiple adverse health-related outcomes [ 6].
In addition, this animal research indicates that there may be a heightened vulnerability to the effects of pyrethroid exposure on hyperactivity, impulsivity, and dopamine transporter levels in male compared to female mice [ 23, 24].
Women experience a heightened vulnerability to the adverse medical and social consequences of opioid dependence [ 35, 47] as a result of biological sex characteristics and socially defined gender roles.
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).
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.
These risks may be of special concern for children, given the prevalence of these foods in their diets, and their smaller size and heightened vulnerability to chemical exposure as a result of developmental processes.
(RS) *Effgen, G.B. and Morrison III, B., Electrophysiological and pathological characterization of the period of heightened vulnerability to repetitive injury in an in vitro stretch model.
