Diabetes, in particular, has become so common (affecting forty per cent of the population) that researchers think that many children, after exposure in the womb, are born with an increased predisposition to the disease.
Patients with the anomaly show an increased predisposition to dyspnea, recurrent respiratory infections and pulmonary haemorrhage.
Female athletes may be particularly susceptible to MDI because of an increased predisposition to joint hyperlaxity.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a dysfunction of heart rhythm and represents an increased predisposition to ischemic stroke in AF patients.
Macrosomic infant was associated with an increased predisposition to develop overweight or obesity at the beginning of their childhood.
According to genetic studies, the acute stimulating effect of ethanol seems to be associated with an increased predisposition to consume large quantities of ethanol.
Conclusions: Patients after Kawasaki disease tend to have a more adverse cardiovascular risk profile potentially indicative of an increased predisposition to premature atherosclerotic changes.
But older adults do have both an increased rate of trauma and an increased predisposition to injury from even minimal force.
The impaired performance of nNOSμ-deficient skeletal muscle during exercise is unlikely to be due to an increased predisposition to contraction-induced injury.
This region is distinct from the locus proximal to MYC on 8q24 that holds alleles conferring an increased predisposition to cancer [37].
Germline mutation of PTEN, LKB1 or TSC1/2 are all associated with human tumorigenesis (Cowden syndrome, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome and tuberous sclerosis respectively), and it is notable that all three syndromes share characteristic features, particularly an increased predisposition to hamartoma development [7].
