Despite evidence that adolescence represents a period of heightened exposure to marijuana, little research exists regarding possible impairment in adolescents who smoke marijuana regularly, and none exists regarding basic behavioral processes.
The majority of Karen medics in this study have only ever inhabited an environment of heightened exposure to distress and repeated traumatic events.
Volatile global oil supply patterns create heightened exposure to price fluctuations.
What at least some of these factors might share in common, Brown suggests, are heightened exposures to infectious agents, which may be more common in inner cities or during colder months when the population is more likely to be sick.
Presently, there is no universal indicator used to quantify the number of persons that may be at risk because of heightened exposure status.
Six categories or determinates of susceptibility were identified: age, preexisting disease, heightened exposure, genetic makeup, sex, and socioeconomic status.
Based on the framework of susceptibility criteria established in the review, age, preexisting disease, heightened exposure, and socioeconomic categories were identified as likely or possibly at increased risk to PM.
Rahui Papa, spokesman for Maori King Tuheitia, told Stuff he hoped the day would heighten exposure for what happened on local battlefields in the same way that ANZAC Day had led to greater awareness of the battle of ANZAC Cove.
To a lesser extent, heightened exposure subgroups were also estimated using population density data.
In the eight-state northeastern U.S. study area, data were analyzed to estimate the magnitude of susceptible groups in the age and preexisting disease categories, and to a lesser extent to estimate the heightened exposure category.
