After chronic administration, the propensity of glucocorticoids to produce hyperglycaemia, hypertension and dyslipidaemia may confer an increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI), stroke and heart failure (4, 5).
Given its propensity for chronic colonization and the substantial number of infected individuals, H. pylori imposes a significant disease burden worldwide.
Is the propensity for chronic back pain a trait which is set early in life, or is it a state experienced according to the situation at the time?
The authors postulated that lower respiratory tract infections early in life resulted in lung damage/inflammation and a propensity towards chronic cough.
Thus, the reduction in IFN-γ-responsiveness in macrophages harbouring alt-transfected parasites has resonance for initial host susceptibility, and longer-term propensity for chronic infection, as well as the ability to eliminate the blood-borne Mf stage.
Likewise, HCV has a high propensity of establishing chronic infections in human.
Importantly, when aberrations in this balance occur, for instance as a consequence genetic polymorphisms, increased propensity to develop chronic inflammation and inflammatory bowel disease is the result.
The real issue is accountability by a Police Department that over the last few years has tarred itself with scandal regarding its increasingly reckless handling of potential crises and its chronic inability to justify its propensity toward extreme reactions.
Such patients, following surgery for the primary head injury, have high propensity to develop chronic posttraumatic headaches.
It has been suggested that HP-infected patients on chronic PPI therapy have a propensity to develop atrophic gastritis, placing them at risk for gastric malignancy.
Vitamin D deficiency has been consistently associated with hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, stroke, multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, osteoporosis, periodontal disease, macular degeneration, mental illness, propensity to fall, chronic pain and various cancers [ 3].
