Structure and guidance in decision making was provided in the PtDA by illustrating the decision making process, including considering personal benefits and risks, b) clarifying level of certainty, knowledge and personal values, c) listing of current health practices, d) listing questions, e) indicating preferred role in decision making, and e) indicating current predisposition toward options.
Additionally, current genetic predisposition information is scattered in literature and, to date, there has been no systematic collection and analysis.
Given current evidence supporting a genetic predisposition for pelvic organ prolapse, we conducted a systematic review of published literature on the genetic epidemiology of pelvic organ prolapse.
We asked whether autoantibody positivity is a surrogate marker of HLA-defined diabetes predisposition in the current study population.
Best current evidence suggests that TC predisposition is determined prenatally; thus, it is possible that those who positively identify as current, chronic cannabis users are also more likely to have been exposed to cannabis during perinatal and/or early childhood development.
In an attempt to improve on current sepsis definitions, the PIRO (predisposition, infection, response, organ dysfunction) concept advocates the use of readily measurable circulating biomarkers as an additional tool in the timely assessment and severity classification of septic patients, and in the prediction of mortality [ 4].
Overweight and worrying about food result from this mismatch between human biological predispositions and the current food environment.
In addition, the current definition of some clinical predispositions, notably sepsis syndrome and pneumonia, were unavailable at the time of these studies.
The breed predisposition observed in the current study indicates a genetic susceptibility to gastric carcinoma.
In this special issue, P. Apostolou and F. Fostira provide an overview on the current knowledge of the genes causing predisposition to breast cancer.
But whether placental dysfunction precedes maternal hypertension, or that it arises from maternal hypertension as a consequence of pre-existing maternal predisposition to endothelial dysfunction, current literature is still controversial [ 6, 26, 27, 29].
