| Its war-like roots predispose it to militarism and the rule of the physically strong. |
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| In addition, childhood behaviors like repetitive hand-to-mouth activity and pica predispose the child to ingestion. |
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| Nasal carriage of organisms may predispose to recurrent infection in an individual. |
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| Each of these patients had diseases known to predispose to heterotopic calcification including scleroderma, acromegaly, and diabetes mellitus. |
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| Much effort must be given to reducing the risk factors that predispose to major atheromatous arterial disease. |
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| The overconsumption of sugar and refined carbohydrates during childhood may set up chemical imbalances that predispose to short-sightedness. |
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| Improper form can increase the stress on the musculoskeletal system and predispose the player to injury. |
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| Poor environmental sanitation and unhygienic personal habits appear to predispose them to the risk of infections. |
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| They were also tested for the common gene mutations that predispose to venous thromboembolism. |
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| Alterations in fluid balance may predispose some pregnant women to develop carpal tunnel syndrome. |
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| This may predispose to gallstones, which in turn can lead to common bile duct obstruction. |
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| These conditions can predispose the patient to arrhythmia and to palpitations. |
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| The authors suggest that this phenotype may predispose to the development of fibromuscular dysplasia. |
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| Neglect in these areas along with the stress of the job used to predispose officers to heart disease-related conditions. |
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| Common folklore among dog trainers asserts that feeding a high-fat diet to working dogs can predispose them to heat stress during hot weather. |
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| The expectation that a gun was involved appeared to predispose the cops toward deadly force. |
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| Quality of life issues are important to them and predispose them to ill health. |
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| This may predispose people to conditions such as cancer and heart disease. |
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| The BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations are known to predispose women to breast cancer. |
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| Neurological complications often reflect skeletal deformity, and the use of callipers, crutches, and wheel-chairs predispose to the development of peripheral nerve entrapment. |
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| Castration before puberty may predispose the animal to pizzle rot. |
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| Rapidly expanding erythrocytic volume increases blood viscosity and, especially in endurance races, might predispose the athlete to blood clots or other complications. |
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| They believed that the psychological characteristics of that disorder could predispose the person to multiple sclerosis. |
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| Better yet, its enormous land and water resources predispose the continent to become the world's breadbasket. |
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| Scientists believe that many common SNPs might predispose people to a particular disease or could influence their response to a particular drug. |
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| This may predispose them to becoming victims themselves in adulthood and to the normalization of such abuse. |
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| The morphologic changes such as decreased cell density, decreased collagen fibril density, and loss of fiber waviness that occur with aging predispose the tendon to injury. |
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| Disruptive and traumatic experience earlier in life can predispose the individual to more deeply troubled responses to trauma later in life. |
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| Fatigue, overindulgence in alcoholic beverages or dietary indiscretion may also predispose a person to air sickness. |
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| However, several factors predispose the growth of bacteria in hair follicles. |
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| Diabetes mellitus, chronic renal failure and cirrhosis of the liver seem to predispose the activation to disease of the otherwise dormant latent infection. |
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| The SNPs can thus act as markers for particular versions of genes, including those versions that predispose people to disease. |
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| Some of the same genes that spark growth spurts in preschoolers predispose adults to obesity, a new study suggests. |
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| For instance, the duration of the production cycle at primary level can predispose to unavoidable events that may occur, such as weather-related or environmental factors. |
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| Secondly, there are many modifiable risk factors that, in addition to the cancer burden, also predispose Canadians to other negative health outcomes. |
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| Scientists believe the test will also cast light on how certain viral infections can predispose people to seemingly unrelated diseases later in life. |
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| If, for example, the 10 to 20 genetic markers that predispose people to colon cancer were to be identified, individuals who had those genes could be kept under closer observation. |
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| All are MIT alumni from about the same time. That background might predispose the new ECB president to the sort of monetary-policy activism that the Fed has gone in for. |
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| Genetic research clearly demonstrates that a person's genetic characteristics can determine or predispose to many diseases, including pathologies whose genetic component had not been suspected. |
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| Additional stress factors such as transport, mixing with other pigs and temperature extremes could also predispose to the development of clinical signs. |
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| There are just as many of us who believe that your personal qualities naturally predispose you to play the role of a President who actively and passionately defends the interests of Europe and its citizens. |
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| Health-promoting community projects include participatory actions to cope with the environmental factors that predispose to risk of noncommunicable diseases: inactivity, unhealthy diet, tobacco use, alcohol use, etc. |
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| It reported that many studies showed how young children's specific experiences could predispose them to delinquent and criminal behaviour as they got older. |
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| Parents who overprotect their children could be stifling their brain development and could even predispose them to future mental illness. |
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| Other factors commonly encountered in animals with peritonitis may also predispose to adynamic ileus. |
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| Hydatid cysts in liver and lungs were believed by Mech to predispose moose to wolf predation. |
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| The obstruction can lead to accumulation of secretions behind the blockage, and predispose to pneumonia. |
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| An oblique view of the operative field may predispose the surgeon to skive unilaterally toward a vertebral artery. |
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| This therapy provides the anti-inflammatory effect, but does not predispose patients to development of antibiotic resistance. |
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| If a species is not an avoider, this does not predispose it to be an exploiter. |
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| Legs fly so high because of ligamental laxity, which can predispose a dancer to injury. |
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| Immunosuppression may predispose turkeys to clostridial infection, resulting in clostridial dermatitis and mortality. |
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| Leaky capillaries, often compounded by hypoproteinaemia, predispose these patients to extravascular fluid extravasation. |
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| Heritable connective tissue disorders such as type IV Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Marfan syndrome, and type I osteogenesis imperfecta predispose patients to dissection. |
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| George Beard in 1869 proposed his theory of neurasthenia, a hereditary nervous system deficiency that could predispose an individual to addiction. |
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| Having a particular form of the gene that encodes the natural compound lactoferfin could predispose some people to travelers' diarrhea, a study finds. |
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