Meanings of increased propensity in English

Some characteristics can identify patients with increased propensity for persisting AF after surgery.

In marked contrast, papillomas formed normally in Chk1 hemizygous skin but showed an increased propensity to progress to carcinoma.

MT 1 receptor knockout mice display increased anxiety, a depressive-like phenotype, increased propensity to reward and addiction, and reduced Rapid-Eye-Movement sleep.

Furthermore there was a trend suggesting a relationship between a lifetime history of SUD and increased propensity to risk-taking during the CGT.

The variation in pH dependent hydrophobicity suggests increased propensity for bioaccumulation and alternate environmental fates for differing microcystin forms, requiring further investigation.

This increased propensity of these mutants to aggregate, relative to wild-type alpha-synuclein, would account for the correlation of these mutations with Parkinson's disease.

We hear voiced a desire for reduced working hours and learn that there is an increased propensity to retire before the statutory retirement age.

In graft rejection, memory T cells mediate accelerated, "second-set" rejection and their presence has been associated with increased propensity for early rejection.

Ulster secondrow Pete Browne is to retire from rugby following advice from a neurological specialist that he has an increased propensity for concussion symptoms.

These animals also exhibit an increased propensity to administer psychostimulants, such as cocaine; however, the mechanisms governing this increased addiction vulnerability remain to be elucidated.

Objectives: Part of the deleterious effects of systemic inflammation on the cardiovascular system of patients with RA may be exerted via increased propensity to hypertension.

Impaired humoral responses, as well as an increased propensity for autoimmunity, play an important role in the development of immune system dysfunction associated with aging.

In older ambulatory persons, postprandial hypotension is an important pathophysiological condition associated with an increased propensity for syncope, falls, coronary vascular events, stroke and death.

The rather modest effect of habitual fat intake on fat oxidation may in part explain the increased propensity to gain FM on a high-fat diet.