Right now, British travellers have heightened sensitivity to risk.
In addition to PM being a surrogate for allergen exposure or being linked to a heightened response to allergen exposure, those with atopy may have an inherent predisposition to a heightened response to PM itself.
A predisposition to stress is heightened when pigs are raised in unstimulating environments, Dr. Grandin said.
17 Severe, persistent pain may also lead to unwanted physiological responses, namely, increased adrenergic tone, augmented oxygen consumption, predisposition to hypercoagulability, decreased immune function and heightened risk of delirium.
Not surprisingly, DDR defects are associated with genomic instability and tumor development, and hereditary mutations leading to DDR impairment cause heightened cancer predisposition as well as various other age-related pathologies [reviewed in (1, 2)].
Because I am also a successful, capable person with, I think, heightened levels of empathy that come from my own struggles, accepting that I have a predisposition to being anxious has helped me get better.
Is it a predisposition to be feckless and lazy?
Do adolescents have a kind of predisposition to drug addiction?
"It may produce a physiological predisposition to better sleeping".
Genomic research can spot all kinds of predispositions -- so why not a predisposition to react to a skin cream or pollutant?
It derives from the ability to attach a cultural predisposition to a visible condition: skin color.
