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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.”

One issue that has emerged as women's sport has been given more attention is a difference in the susceptibility to some injuries.

Everyone sounds too smart to be prone to error, although Sevigny comes closest, embodying someone in a precarious state of emotional susceptibility, whose obvious intelligence hides unspoken wounds.

“For 100 years or more, we’ve known that measles does cause an acute susceptibility to other infections,” Mina said.

Obesity is another factor that can increase susceptibility to infections as well as the severity by ramping up inflammation in the body.