The phrase "heightened susceptibility" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone's tendency to be more easily influenced or affected than normal. For example, "Her heightened susceptibility to peer pressure often leads her into trouble."
Recent research suggests that children's heightened susceptibility to parenting may have a (poly genetic basis, and may be grounded in children's temperament.
Girls' heightened susceptibility to mass psychogenic illness need not be seen, in other words, as a function of a delicate constitution or a more "hysterical" nature, but of their propensity to talk among themselves about their health.
Post-weaning complications in piglets are characterized by a reduction in-feed intake and growth, atrophy of small intestine architecture, upregulation of intestinal inflammatory cytokines, alterations in GIT microflora, diarrhea, and heightened susceptibility to infection.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control, 30% of Americans report "short sleep duration" of less than six hours a night, much of it accounted for by increasingly peripatetic work habits and linked, among other things, to a possibly heightened susceptibility to Alzheimers.
Anything can happen, he says, including "rare, unintended side effects like heightened susceptibility to other pathogens".
Mutations in NPR1 result in a failure to induce PR genes in systemic tissues and a heightened susceptibility to pathogen infection, whereas overexpression of the NPR1 protein leads to increased induction of the PR genes and enhanced disease resistance.
In humans, cyclic neutropenia, a genetic disease caused by mutations in the NE-coding ela2 gene, is associated with recurrent troughs in neutrophil production and heightened susceptibility to infections, suggesting a dual developmental and functional role for NE [58, 59].
Given the current state of evidence, MAP target of 65 mmHg may be reasonable in septic shock patients without any heightened susceptibility to AKI, such as preexisting chronic hypertension, atherosclerosis, chronic kidney disease or advanced age.
These results suggest heightened susceptibility of the tumor vasculature including FAs and DVs, to Tookad-VTP.
Considering the dramatic increase in susceptibility to colon tumor development, we hypothesized that mice with chronic colitis may also demonstrate heightened susceptibility to advanced tumor progression.
