susceptibility

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Researchers previously believed this condition developed mainly from a mix of genetic susceptibility and lifestyle or environmental influences.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

Sad to say, there could hardly be a better time to bring back Mr. Letts’s stealthy, slow-burning 1996 play about the human susceptibility to paranoid delusions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Only drilling—which is costly and disruptive—reveals the truth about a site’s susceptibility to collapse.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2025

Other research, the study noted, has found “greater male susceptibility to cortical atrophy and neuroinflammation under stress, which aligns with our findings of heightened pandemic-related brain aging in males.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2025

In 2004 two U.S. anthropologists and a Venezuelan medical researcher proposed that Native American susceptibility to infectious disease might have a second cause: helper-T cells, which like HLAs help the immune system recognize foreign objects.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann