In epidemiology, a risk factor or determinant is a variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection.: 38  Due to a lack of harmonization...

involves improving risk factors through: healthy eating, exercise, avoidance of tobacco smoke and limiting alcohol intake. Treating risk factors, such as high...

with vulnerability factors. Risk factors of schizophrenia have been identified and include genetic factors, environmental factors such as experiences...

Risk factor most commonly refers to: Risk factor (epidemiology) Risk factor (finance) It may also refer to: Risk factor (criminology) Risk factor (computing)...

financial costs to health care systems. The risk of having osteoporosis includes age and sex. Risk factors include both nonmodifiable (for example, age...

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Risk factors for suicide include mental disorders, physical disorders, and substance abuse...

environmental and hereditary risk factors. The term environmental, as used by cancer researchers, means any risk factor that is not genetically inherited...

assessment of risk factors for genocide is an upstream mechanism for genocide prevention. The goal is to apply an assessment of risk factors to improve the...

There are a number risk factors for tuberculosis infection; worldwide the most important of these is HIV. Co-infection with HIV is a particular problem...

or not). A meta-analysis showed that a high level of neuroticism is a risk factor for development of anxiety symptoms and disorders. Such anxiety may be...

In finance, risk factors are the building blocks of investing, that help explain the systematic returns in equity market, and the possibility of losing...

older age. Other risk factors include hormone therapy after menopause, fertility medication, and obesity. Factors that decrease risk include hormonal...

model. However, no one model completely illustrates substance abuse. Risk factors for addiction include: Aggressive behavior (particularly in childhood)...

"explanatory variable", "exposure variable" (see reliability theory), "risk factor" (see medical statistics), "feature" (in machine learning and pattern...

tests used is the mini–mental state examination. Although the greatest risk factor for developing dementia is aging, dementia is not a normal part of the...

most of these develop thrombosis only in the presence of an additional risk factor. There is no specific treatment for most thrombophilias, but recurrent...

compare the risk of an adverse outcome when receiving a medical treatment versus no treatment (or placebo), or for environmental risk factors. For example...

of bladder control. The most significant risk factor for stroke is high blood pressure. Other risk factors include high blood cholesterol, tobacco smoking...

to be established. A meta-analysis concluded gas stoves are a major risk factor for asthma, finding around one in eight cases in the U.S. could be attributed...

shock or cardiac arrest. Most MIs occur due to coronary artery disease. Risk factors include high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, lack of exercise, obesity...

populations. Although the causes listed correlate to the risk of developing ASPD, one factor alone is unlikely to be the only cause associated with ASPD...

lifestyle factors and genetic disorders. Risk factors include diet, obesity, smoking, and lack of physical activity. Dietary factors that increase the risk include...

Factor analysis of information risk (FAIR) is a taxonomy of the factors that contribute to risk and how they affect each other. It is primarily concerned...

Risk factor research has proliferated within the discipline of criminology in recent years, based largely on the early work of Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck...

inflammation. The most common cause of COPD is tobacco smoking. Other risk factors include indoor and outdoor air pollution including dust, exposure to...

deliveries. Hypertension is considered a risk factor for high-risk pregnancy because it leads to an increased risk of pre-eclampsia, restricted fetal growth...

build-up in the liver (hepatic steatosis), and at least one metabolic risk factor. When there is also increased alcohol intake, the term MetALD, or metabolic...

coagulation (hypercoagulability). Some risk factors predispose for venous thrombosis while others increase the risk of arterial thrombosis.[citation needed]...

rate of 70–80%, where risk factors are highly accumulative. The environmental risks are not related to social or familial factors; they exert their effects...

The bus factor (aka lottery factor, truck factor, or circus factor) is a measurement of the risk resulting from information and capabilities not being...