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Research by UC San Francisco’s Sharon suggests migraine headaches predispose people to BPPV, by causing crystals to dislodge from their normal location.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

"The whole team undertakes a standardized warm-up that addresses a number of physical concerns that predispose our female athletes to ACLs," she said.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025

Their goal was to pinpoint what biological conditions might predispose some people to the problem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025

Nothing in her environment would predispose her to cancer, except for being in close proximity to the fires.

From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2025

Attitudes such as these certainly predispose one to innumeracy.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

The condition turns up in 10% to 20% of people in their 70s, and predisposes them to blood cancer and, surprisingly, heart disease, likely driven by the inflammation these rogue cells provoke.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

Studies show that adding sugar to any food for babies or small children predisposes them to having a sweet tooth.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2024

This predisposes them to developing the disease but in itself is not symptomatic.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2024

People with two copies of the APOE4 gene, which predisposes to Alzheimer’s, may be at higher risk of ARIA.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 6, 2023

It also predisposes to the greater action of other causes.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.

Most had had previous, less severe incidents—or “micro concussions”—that while not enough to send them to a clinician, predisposed them to a bigger event, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2025

“We adults have persuaded ourselves that this is one of the bonuses of being a child, that you can revel in magical creatures. But there isn’t much evidence that children are predisposed to magical thinking.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2024

But the human body is a disorderly thing predisposed to rot from the outside in.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2024

"The US market is not only huge, but also more predisposed to taking big shots," Mustafa Suleyman, who co-founded Google DeepMind and has just joined Microsoft, told the BBC.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2024

He was especially predisposed to forgive or ignore political differences when the other person had been one of the “band of brothers” in 1776.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

“Inadequate nutrition, particularly vitamin A deficiency, can impair the lining of the digestive tract, predisposing birds to inflammation and secondary illness.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

However, the new study indicates that, without simultaneous maternal pulse recording, this method is a significant risk factor predisposing the fetus to labour-related hypoxia and its long-term neurological effects.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024

Which predisposing conditions the person was diagnosed with.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2022

A growing number of scientists suggest that the changes in the Arctic will have an impact on the globe’s far more populous mid-latitudes by predisposing the atmosphere to extreme weather events.

From Washington Post ● May 10, 2017

Was there anything about the Chinese environment predisposing toward Confucian philosophy and cultural conservatism, which may also have profoundly affected history?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond