Such patients have disruptions in appropriate inflammatory responses, including the migration and recruitment of neutrophils and macrophage, which predisposes them to increased infection [1].
Undernourished persons show immune dysfunction, which predisposes them to infections [ 23, 24].
Moreover, rhinopomatids are cave-dwellers, which predisposes them to be particularly common in the fossil record.
Many women are overweight or obese at conception which predisposes them to increased risk of antepartum stillbirth [ 14].
CRRT requires multiple accesses to blood stream in critically ill patients, which predisposes them to blood borne infections in less ideal situations in developing countries.
There are recent reports showing that adolescents in Africa engage in unsafe sexual behaviour which predisposes them to adverse outcome including sexually transmitted infections [ 4- 7].
The increased risk associated with younger inmates in our study was likely due to a more active lifestyle, which predisposes them to skin abrasions.
The excess morbidity and mortality associated with undernutrition owed to the impairment of host defense mechanisms, which predisposes them to infectious diseases [ 20].
Most troops were unlikely to have been exposed to a second dengue virus infection, which predisposes them to more severe disease.
After similar overtures, "Grey's Anatomy" and "ER" featured patients with the BRCA gene mutation, which predisposes some women to breast cancer.
