risk factor

collocation in English

meanings of riskand factor

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings.
risk
noun
uk /rɪsk/ us /rɪsk/
the possibility of something ...
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factor
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈfæk.tər/ us /ˈfæk.tɚ/
a fact or situation that influences the result ...
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Examples of risk factor

risk factor
Next to age, hypertension is the most important riskfactor for acute stroke and an important riskfactor for ischaemic heart disease and cardiac failure.
Toxicity of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in the elderly: is advanced age a riskfactor?
The most important riskfactor for cardioor cerebrovascular disease is tobacco smoking.
Aggressive riskfactor management in the elderly: are you ever too old?
In other words, the riskfactor is a problem that is fundamentally the responsibility of the candidate, rather than of the candidate's community or provider.
Recent bereavement was not an important riskfactor in this study.
Low parental care as a riskfactor to lifetime depression in a community sample.
Thus, early life exposure to khat could be a riskfactor operating in this group.
A third riskfactor was concerned with the level of residual agoraphobia.
The variable could directly or indirectly reflect an environmental aetiological riskfactor.
Future longitudinal studies may explore this as an additional riskfactor.
Secondly, depression may be a riskfactor for dementia.
Living rurally could thus be a riskfactor for this group of older adults.
He did not find steroids to be a riskfactor for development of aneurysms if used together with aspirin.
Type of operation was identifiable as a riskfactor for abnormalities on 24-hour electrocardiogram.
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