Sentences with phrase «other predisposing factors»

Other predisposing factors relating to poorer health will also be well - known to Dr Gillespie: the overall situation in which rural people have lower incomes, fewer years of completed education, and higher rates of deprivation, including unemployment, disability and poverty.

Other predisposing factors may be obesity and / or diseases affecting a pet's airway.

Other predisposing factors are: a senior cat who weighs more than 15 pounds and being a male cat.

Other predisposing factors include lack of training, playing tug - o - war games with the dog, and lack of exercise.

Dogs reacting to stranger dogs, on the other hand, are often reacting due to dominance or fear; however, many other predisposing factors are at play when dealing with inter-dog aggressive displays and attacks.

That's because normal immune shifts during pregnancy can trigger an autoimmune disease such as Hashimoto's hypothyroidism, depending on genetics and other predisposing factors.

Natural immune shifts during pregnancy, together with a genetic tendency and other predisposing factors, can trigger hypothyroidism in some women.

Not exact matches

I intuitively sense an Immanent, Benevolent Presence in my life; but, of course spiritual experience is a subjective matter dependent on many factors — temperamental tendencies that are genetically predisposed (not determined) and personal experiences, so I am not claiming my experience is any sort of empirical «proof» for the existence of God that should convince others.

The fact that some drug addicts switch from morphine to alcohol and back, as the supply of one or the other becomes inaccessible, seems to belie the existence of a specific physical predisposing factor.

But the precise risk of these conditions developing in children of older fathers has not been calculated, and other predisposing genetic and environment factors are likely to play a role.

However, it is possible that these foreign proteins, in the presence of proinflammatory cytokines and other immune factors, predispose infants to this condition.

Genetic factors can contribute to the degree of longevity in at least two important ways: An individual may inherit certain genetic variations that predispose him or her to disease that decreases longevity; other gene variants may confer disease resistance, thereby increasing it.

If, say, an unexpected adverse event pops up in a human trial, the informaticians can then sift animal, lab, and human data to investigate the possibility that certain gene variants or other factors predispose patients to the adverse event.

But scientists are accumulating a growing list of other risk factors that predispose people to this condition, including prenatal exposure to famine conditions, certain infections or exposure to lead.

The next step, he says, is to broaden the sample pool to determine what factors in the environment and in the microbiome might be making Finns — who are at exceptionally high risk of T1D — more predisposed to the disease than other populations.

Post-antibiotic yeast infections manifest as a sudden onset acute infection with a well - known culprit, but many other factors may predispose you to chronic yeast overgrowth, or candidiasis.

Psychology experts point out that isolation can be a predisposing factor to many health problems, such as depression and other psychiatric conditions.

Other factors predispose cats to becoming ill once they have been exposed to a poisonous substance; these include their small body size, their ability to hide so that exposure is not immediately evident, and because cats, being specialist carnivores, lack certain liver enzymes, they are unable to breakdown certain chemicals.

Hepatic encephalopathy is somewhat more common in the breeds of dogs and cats that are the most prone to liver problems (portosystemic shunts are a predisposing factor in toy and small breeds of dogs and in Persian cats; English cockers, Labs, Westies and dobies because of their increased susceptibility to liver disease of other sorts).

Some dogs may be predisposed to hip dysplasia, however, they will not develop the disease unless certain other factors come into play.

There are many other things to factor in to treatment for bladder stones (whether your dog will eat the prescription diets, whether your dog has problems with urinary tract infections that might continue to predispose to stones, whether your dog has a conformational problem that predisposes her to stones, etc etc) so discuss all of this and more with your veterinarian and find what is right for your particular dog.

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It is not known whether the pop - top cans are coincidental to some other factor which causes this group of cats to seem predisposed to hyperthyroidism.

There are no known predisposing factors other than size and breed that I am aware of for hemangiosarcoma.

Though all cats (and dogs) are at risk of urethral obstruction, the condition tends to happen most often in cats — and amongst them, the most commonly affected are the male cats and those with certain other «predisposing factors».

early history and predisposing factors to problems, such as each family member's attachment history and other family - of - origin factors

''... perhaps doubts about marriage simply reflect a fragile relationship or other factors that predispose divorce.