Sentence examples for existing predisposition from inspiring English sources

The aetiology is unclear, and in most cases, the trigger factors consist of trauma or infection, probably in subjects with an existing predisposition.

Hospital mortality for patients with any CI was 47% (n = 18) and 48% (n = 11) if existing predisposition for bleeding.

Our results suggest that the progression or development of neurological diseases might be affected by the number and type of environmental second hits in conjunction with an existing predisposition.

More research is needed to further clarify the situation with respect to the association between antidepressant use and the risk of epilepsy/seizures, taking account of the type, severity and number of seizures over time, whether patients have an existing predisposition to epilepsy/seizures, and accounting for other cofactors such as co-prescriptions, that may influence this relationship.

You may choose a spouse similar to yourself, with similar existing predispositions to the conditions (assortative mating).

Theories of media use, such as the uses-and-gratifications and the selective exposure approach, generally agree that people select media content that matches existing predispositions (e.g., Ruggiero, 2000; Zillmann & Bryant, 1985).

It has therefore been suggested that the vertebrate WGD events, occurring subsequent to amphioxus divergence, were symptoms of a pre-existing predisposition toward genomic structural change [78].

Existing arguments supporting predisposition of certain regions for breakage are based on the observed co-incidence or clustering of independent breakage events (e.g., large rearrangements, segmental duplications, or breaks in tumor cells) on a genome.

In this model, MZD twins with the disease are argued to have acquired additional de novo errors onto an already existing background of genetic predisposition and thus contributing to disease liability.

A closer look at our textbooks and teachers suggests that there is a predisposition in existing curriculum to cultivate and promote partisan, divisive and intolerant thinking.

But if all citing our religious verses and texts does is support, shore up, bolster, and legitimate our existing political and psychological predispositions - be they liberal or conservative - then religion is just one more expression of our narcissism and we have made god in our image.