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Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.
Alison Sweeney

Meaning of "risk factor" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF RISK FACTOR

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RISK FACTOR

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Risk factor is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RISK FACTOR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Risk factor

In epidemiology, a risk factor is a variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection. Sometimes, determinant is also used, being a variable associated with either increased or decreased risk.

Definition of risk factor in the English dictionary

The definition of risk factor in the dictionary is a factor, such as a habit or an environmental condition, that predisposes an individual to develop a particular disease.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RISK FACTOR

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rising star
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risk one´s neck
risk-taking
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riskily
riskiness
riskless
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WORDS THAT END LIKE RISK FACTOR

actor
benefactor
child actor
chiropractor
compactor
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contractor
director
extractor
factor
growth factor
heavy-water reactor
nerve growth factor
power factor
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reactor
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subcontractor
tractor
wow factor
X factor

Synonyms and antonyms of risk factor in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «risk factor» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RISK FACTOR

Find out the translation of risk factor to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of risk factor from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «risk factor» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

风险因素
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

factor de riesgo
570 millions of speakers

English

risk factor
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जोखिम कारक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عامل خطر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фактором риска
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

factor de risco
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্ষতির কারণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

facteur de risque
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

faktor risiko
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Risikofaktor
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

危険因子
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

위험 인자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Faktor risiko
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

yếu tố nguy cơ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆபத்து காரணி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जोखीम घटक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

risk faktörü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fattore di rischio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

czynnik ryzyka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фактором ризику
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

factor de risc
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παράγοντας κινδύνου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

risikofaktor
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

riskfaktor
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

risikofaktor
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of risk factor

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RISK FACTOR»

The term «risk factor» is quite widely used and occupies the 30.670 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about risk factor

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6 QUOTES WITH «RISK FACTOR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word risk factor.
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Tina Brown
The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag.
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Cynthia Kenyon
Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35. It makes a huge difference. It gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine.
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Cynthia Kenyon
Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.
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Charles Pelly
Making a new car is so expensive that the risk factor is what takes the unique ideas and keeps reanalyzing them until they become very similar.
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Gregory Petsko
As far as protecting yourself against Alzheimer's disease, well, it turns out that fish oil has the effect of reducing your risk for Alzheimer's disease. You should also keep your blood pressure down, because chronic high blood pressure is the biggest single risk factor for Alzheimer's disease.
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Alison Sweeney
Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RISK FACTOR»

Discover the use of risk factor in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to risk factor and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Public Health and the Risk Factor: A History of an Uneven ...
A look at how the concept of "risk factor" has influenced public health and preventive medicine, with an emphasis upon the study of heart disease.
William G. Rothstein, 2003
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The Risk Factor: Crossing the Chicken Line Into Your ...
The Risk Factor: Crossing the Chicken Line Into Your Supernatural Destiny was written by a father-son team who discuss the dynamics and importance of risk as a Kingdom lifestyle of faith that rockets believers into the supernatural—and ...
Kevin Dedmon, Chad Dedmon, 2011
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Global Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
David V. McQueen, Pekka Puska. patterns in the population and how they change over time. For this purpose, self-reported behaviour is more than adequate. In fact, with some behaviours — for example, sexual behaviour — self- reported data ...
David V. McQueen, Pekka Puska, 2003
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Risk Factors in Depression
RISK FACTOR MODELS Risk factor research has recently been refined by the work of Kraemer, Kazdin and colleagues, who have proposed that a standardized terminology of risk is necessary to facilitate clear communication about the status ...
Keith S. Dobson, David J. A Dozois, 2011
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Light Pollution as a New Risk Factor for Human Breast and ...
Ecological bias, analogical to confounding, may also occur when the background rate of a disease varies across unexposed populations or due to the presence of an “effect modifier” or a factor which is not necessarily a risk factor by itself (e.g., ...
Abraham Haim, Boris A. Portnov, 2013
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To Your Health : How to Understand What Research Tells Us ...
Proxy risk factor: A risk factor that is a risk factor for an outcome only because it is strongly associated with another, more relevant, risk factor. Consider Example 5.1. EXAMPLE 5.1 Suppose researchers identified two risk factors for teen-onset  ...
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford University Helena Chmura Kraemer Professor of Biostatistics in Psychiatry, Professor of Biostatistics in Psychiatry Karen Kraemer Lowe, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford University, and Professor of Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine David J. Kup, 2005
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Health Message Framing: Motivating Cardiovascular Risk ...
Health message framing: Motivating cardiovascular risk factor screening in young adults. Doctor of Philosophy (Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine), August 2008, 82 pp., 9 tables, references, 52 titles. As the leading cause of death in ...
Jessica Link-Malcolm, 2008
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Indifference Valuation in Non-reduced Incomplete Models with ...
employee's stock options viewed as options on the non-traded risk factor. When the market is complete and the options are written on the traded asset, the timing of early exercise is independent of the number of options held. Moreover, all the ...
Ekaterina Sokolova, 2007
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Recreational Water Contact as a Risk Factor for ...
Cynthia Chioma McOliver. (Sorvillo et al 1992, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2002 & 2007, Craun et al 2005, Causer et al 2006, Shaffzin et al 2006 ). Swimming has also been associated with cryptosporidiosis in persons with ...
Cynthia Chioma McOliver, 2009
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Modern Epidemiology
In this regard, it should be noted that a risk factor that is independent of exposure in the source population can (and usually will) become associated with exposure among the cases; hence one cannot take the association among cases as a ...
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, Timothy L. Lash, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RISK FACTOR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term risk factor is used in the context of the following news items.
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Childhood School Performance And Type 1 Diabetes Identified As …
Other research reports identified loneliness, low physical activity and high TV viewing as risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia. "Evidence is growing ... «PR Newswire, Jul 15»
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FX moves are a risk factor for companies says BOJ's Funo
FX moves are a risk factor for companies says BOJ's Funo. Wed 1 Jul 2015 10:10:46 GMT. Author: Ryan Littlestone | Category: Central Banks. Author: Ryan ... «ForexLive, Jul 15»
3
The Heart Attack Risk Factor Millions Deal With Every Night
“Poor sleep should be considered a modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, along with smoking, lack of exercise, and poor diet,” said professor Valery ... «Yahoo Health, Jun 15»
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Want to know your risk of dying in the next five years? Take the …
We already know several risk factors that have a substantial impact on mortality. For example, smoking, lack of exercise and increased body mass index have ... «The Conversation UK, Jun 15»
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One-Third of Americans Have Heart Risk Factors
Age affects many of the risk factors that combine to create metabolic syndrome, said Dr. Pamela Morris, chair of the American College of Cardiology's Prevention ... «WebMD, May 15»
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Public Release: 19-Apr-2015 Shared risk factors lead to diabetes …
IMAGE: Tim Byers, M.D., M.P.H., leads a major symposium at AACR 2015 exploring diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer as results of similar risk factors. «EurekAlert, Apr 15»
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Doctors ID new risk factor for autism
A California team found that babies born to mothers who developed gestational diabetes before 26 weeks of pregnancy had a higher risk of autism. The risk was ... «6abc.com, Apr 15»
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Studies link air pollution as risk factor for anxiety and trigger for stroke
Research into new questions about links between mental health and air quality has found an association between levels of anxiety and levels of fine particulate ... «Medical News Today, Mar 15»
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Role of urban living overestimated as asthma risk factor
For many years, urban living has been widely regarded as a risk factor for asthma. More than half a century ago, experts spoke of an "inner-city asthma ... «Medical News Today, Jan 15»
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Sitting will kill you, even if you exercise
Physical inactivity has been identified as the fourth-leading risk factor for death for people all around the world, according to the World Health Organization. «CNN, Jan 15»

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