Sentences with phrase «leading predisposing factor»

Some 60 percent of U.S. adults say they're worried at the prospect of developing cancer, yet only 6 percent recognize that being overweight is a leading predisposing factor.

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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 factors that can lead to obesity — a junk food diet, inflammation, unhealthy gut bacteria, lack of exercise — also predispose one to autoimmune disorders such as Hashimoto's hypothyroidism.

The new study, funded by NASA and led by Dr. Richard Pearson of UCL Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research and formerly of the American Museum of Natural History, and by Dr. Resit Akçakaya of Stony Brook University in New York, identified factors that predispose species to high extinction risk due to climate change.