The phrase "are prone to develop" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a tendency or likelihood for something to occur or manifest, often in a negative context.
Example: "Children who experience trauma are prone to develop anxiety disorders later in life."
Alternatives: "tend to develop" or "are likely to develop".
Introduction: Immunosuppressed (IS) patients are prone to develop respiratory failure and to need ventilatory support.
Spiral arteries with failure of physiologic transformation are prone to develop atherosclerotic-like lesions of atherosis.
Diabetics are prone to develop liver diseases and liver regeneration is impaired in them.
Conclusions: Patients who have a positive ΔIPF are prone to develop clinically significant SIRS in our pilot study.
Based on the clinical observations, patients with portal hypertension are prone to develop bacterial translocation that conceivably causes SBP.
Observations provide histological evidence that renal cell neoplasms are prone to develop in relatively young patients with renal failure when their uraemia is treated by long-term dialysis.
There is also evidence that patients with PJS are prone to develop endometrial adenocarcinomas [69, 70], especially highly invasive ones [70].
Patients after cardiac surgery are prone to develop postoperative pulmonary complication (PPCs), which are currently diagnosed by chest X-ray (CXR).
Our hypothesis is that tumors are prone to develop where there is a high concentration of blood flow that can supply ample oxygen and nutrients to the tumor.
This disease usually manifests within the first year of life and patients with DS are prone to develop sudden cardiac death [24-26] [24-26]
Appaloosas are prone to develop equine recurrent uveitis and congenital stationary night blindness; the latter has been linked to the leopard complex.
