risk factors
Hazard-increasing circumstances
Risk factors are conditions, behaviors, or characteristics that increase the likelihood of an undesirable outcome—typically disease or injury.
Smoking is a risk factor for lung cancer; high blood pressure is a risk factor for stroke.
The term appears constantly in medical and public health contexts: Several risk factors for heart disease run in my family.
Risk factors don't guarantee outcomes; they indicate elevated probability.
- prevalenceState of being widespread
- obesityExcess body fat condition
- poor dietInadequate or harmful eating
- high cholesterolExcess blood lipids
- heart diseaseMalfunction of blood-pumping organ
smoking · secondhand smoke · chronic stress · mental health · outbreak · air pollution · morbidity · sleep deprivation · unemployment · food insecurity · sedentary lifestyle · incidence · alcohol abuse · binge drinking · social isolation · poverty · hypertension · substance abuse
- financebank, CFO, banks, controller, finance
- health factorsexercise, genetics, smoking, alcohol, lifestyle
- medical issuesdiagnosis, symptoms, complications, prognosis, treatment failure
- riskdownside, product liability, threat assessment, peril, hazard
- Alcohol Awarenessalcohol education, alcohol abuse, alcoholism, underage drinking, teen drinking
- Annual Report Sectionsbalance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement, executive summary, profit margins
risk factorsmitigating factors
Circumstances reducing culpability
safeguards · safety factors · buffers · strengths · assets
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