1 Certain people may be predisposed to mental illness.

2 The inhabitants are predisposed to rheumatism by the damp climate.

3 He believes that some people are predisposed to criminal behaviour.

4 The theory states that individuals possess certain characteristics so that they are predisposed to act in a certain way within a given situation.

5 The natural impulses of mankind were for happiness, and we were predisposed to love one another and love peace.

6 Such individuals, as in patients who have undergone splenectomy are predisposed to infections and overwhelming sepsis.

7 Hence they were predisposed to secure contracts under the state scheme which preserved their freedom.

8 A diet too high in refined sugar and fat will predispose to either obesity or shortage of nutrients, including minerals.

9 As a result, those individuals who might be predisposed to aggression were the most sensitive to changes in serotonin depletion.

10 Some patients may be predisposed to a condition called deep vein thrombosis DVT.

11 The researchers cautioned that the study only predicts the likelihood that a child will be predisposed to physical prowess.

12 Especially, patients with very low plasma TPP concentrations might be predisposed to high risk of spontaneous bleeding.

13 International Diabetes : With current and available methods of screening and examinations can patients who may be predisposed to diabetes be selected out of the general populations?

14 Most commonly histiocytomas are found in young dogs and appear as a small, solitary, hairless lump, although Shar Peis may be predisposed to multiple histiocytomas.