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-- Causes may well be classified as predisposing and exciting, for there are many etiologic factors to be reckoned with in spavin, some of which are widely different in nature.

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This practice has been identified as a predisposing factor of contracting HIV thereby increasing their vulnerability.

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But although we are inching closer to that day, we will probably need to reliably identify many more variants predisposing to heart attacks over the next few years before it becomes useful to perform this genetic profiling in a doctor's office, he cautioned.

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Similarly, as humans developed, so did certain other kinds of interactions—and soon these too began to leave their mark on our brains, predisposing them to function in certain ways.

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

Fub says: neurodoc: Before these details were added, I was going to go with an intracranial bleed, whether due to an aneurysm that had been leaking for awhile and finally ruptured, an arteriovenous malformation, or other lesion predisposing to hemorrhage.

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So, what predisposing factors might be associated with both addiction and exceptional professional achievements?

Jason Eric Schiffman, M.D., M.A., M.B.A.: The Successful Drug Addict Jason Eric Schiffman 2011

If (as is the case) some totalitarianist regimes are not “socialist”, one should look for other predisposing factors that are not unique to socialism, or even to multiple causes for totalitarian inclinations.

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Similarly, as humans developed, so did certain other kinds of interactions—and soon these too began to leave their mark on our brains, predisposing them to function in certain ways.

In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

And instead of medical conditions that if untreated would likely foreshorten his life considerably, it was a medical condition that would likely produce death in relatively short order if untreated, e.g., serious cardiac arrhythmia predisposing to sudden death if not treated, maybe with a pacemaker?

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So, what predisposing factors might be associated with both addiction and exceptional professional achievements?

Jason Eric Schiffman, M.D., M.A., M.B.A.: The Successful Drug Addict Jason Eric Schiffman 2011