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"Risk Assessment" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The qualitative or quantitative estimation of the likelihood of adverse effects that may result from exposure to specified health hazards or from the absence of beneficial influences. (Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 1988)

Descriptor ID	D018570
MeSH Number(s)	E05.318.740.600.800.715 N04.452.871.715 N05.715.360.750.625.700.690 N06.850.505.715 N06.850.520.830.600.800.715
Concept/Terms	Risk Assessment Risk Assessment Assessments, Risk Risk Assessments Health Risk Assessment Assessment, Health Risk Assessments, Health Risk Health Risk Assessments Risk Assessment, Health Risk Assessments, Health Assessment, Risk Risks and Benefits Risks and Benefits Benefits and Risks Benefit-Risk Assessment Benefit-Risk Assessment Assessment, Benefit-Risk Assessments, Benefit-Risk Benefit Risk Assessment Benefit-Risk Assessments Risk-Benefit Assessment Assessment, Risk-Benefit Assessments, Risk-Benefit Risk Benefit Assessment Risk-Benefit Assessments

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Risk Assessment".

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Investigative Techniques [E05]
Epidemiologic Methods [E05.318]
Statistics as Topic [E05.318.740]
Probability [E05.318.740.600]
Risk [E05.318.740.600.800]
Risk Assessment [E05.318.740.600.800.715]
Health Care [N]
Health Services Administration [N04]
Organization and Administration [N04.452]
Risk Management [N04.452.871]
Risk Assessment [N04.452.871.715]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality of Health Care [N05.715]
Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms [N05.715.360]
Statistics as Topic [N05.715.360.750]
Probability [N05.715.360.750.625]
Risk [N05.715.360.750.625.700]
Risk Assessment [N05.715.360.750.625.700.690]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Epidemiologic Measurements [N06.850.505]
Risk Assessment [N06.850.505.715]
Epidemiologic Methods [N06.850.520]
Statistics as Topic [N06.850.520.830]
Probability [N06.850.520.830.600]
Risk [N06.850.520.830.600.800]
Risk Assessment [N06.850.520.830.600.800.715]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Risk Assessment".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Risk Assessment".

Risk Assessment
Adverse Outcome Pathways
Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Risk Assessment" by people in this website by year, and whether "Risk Assessment" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 1428 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 105 publications in 2020

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	0	1	1
1997	0	3	3
1998	0	2	2
1999	1	6	7
2000	2	7	9
2001	2	6	8
2002	4	16	20
2003	1	23	24
2004	4	27	31
2005	4	44	48
2006	3	36	39
2007	6	52	58
2008	4	64	68
2009	2	65	67
2010	6	72	78
2011	3	55	58
2012	13	65	78
2013	15	69	84
2014	9	67	76
2015	13	69	82
2016	12	67	79
2017	16	59	75
2018	13	67	80
2019	15	79	94
2020	11	94	105
2021	5	62	67
2022	1	21	22
2023	0	18	18
2024	0	45	45
2025	0	2	2

Below are the most recent publications written about "Risk Assessment" by people in Profiles.

Zhang J, Hobbs BD, Silverman EK, Sparrow D, Ortega VE, Xu H, Zhang C, Dupuis J, Walkey AJ, O'Connor GT, Cho MH, Moll M. Polygenic Risk Score Added to Conventional Case Finding to Identify Undiagnosed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. JAMA. 2025 Mar 04; 333(9):784-792.

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Rade JJ, Kronsberg SS, Kickler TS, Vasan RS, Xanthakis V, Nayor MG, Barton BA. Association of Systemic Thromboxane Generation With Risk of Developing Heart?Failure. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2025 Jan 07; 85(1):58-70.

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Beydoun HA, Beydoun MA, Kinney RL, Liu S, Yu R, Allison M, Wallace RB, Xiao Q, Liu L, Gradidge P, Jung SY, Tindle HA, Follis S, Brunner R, Tsai J. Pathways From Socioeconomic Factors to Major Cardiovascular Events Among Postmenopausal Veteran and Nonveteran Women: Findings From the Women's Health Initiative. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Dec 17; 13(24):e037253.

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Lee E, Shu L, Salehi Omran S, Goldstein ED, Henninger N, Nguyen TN, Siegler JE, Strelecky L, Khan F, Stretz C, Furie KL, Yaghi S. Differential outcomes and treatment in non-traumatic carotid versus vertebral cervical artery dissection: A national inpatient sample study. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2025 Feb; 34(2):108170.

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Claudel SE, Waikar SS, Schmidt IM, Vasan RS, Verma A. The relationship between low levels of albuminuria and mortality among adults without major cardiovascular risk factors. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2024 Dec 04; 31(17):2046-2055.

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Siracuse JJ, Farber A, Menard MT, Rosenfield K, Conte MS, Schanzer A, Doros G, Motaganahalli R, Laskowski IJ, Barshes NR, Genovese EA, Strong MB, Mills JL. Advanced Wound, Ischemia, and Foot Infection stage is associated with poor outcomes in the BEST-CLI trial. J Vasc Surg. 2025 Mar; 81(3):720-729.e1.

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Aimo A, Todiere G, Barison A, Tomasoni D, Panichella G, Masri A, Maron MS. Diagnosis and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: European vs. American guidelines. Heart Fail Rev. 2025 Mar; 30(2):315-325.

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Pirruccello JP, Khurshid S, Lin H, Weng LC, Zamirpour S, Kany S, Raghavan A, Koyama S, Vasan RS, Benjamin EJ, Lindsay ME, Ellinor PT. The AORTA Gene score for detection and risk stratification of ascending aortic dilation. Eur Heart J. 2024 Oct 21; 45(40):4318-4332.

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Reed SD, Sutphin J, Wallace MJ, Gonzalez JM, Yang JC, Reed Johnson F, Tsapatsaris J, Tarver ME, Saha A, Chen AL, Gebben DJ, Malone M, Farb A, Babalola O, Rorer EM, Parikh SA, Simons JP, Jones WS, Krucoff MW, Secemsky EA, Corriere MA. Quantifying patients' preferences on tradeoffs between mortality risk and reduced need for target vessel revascularization for claudication. Vasc Med. 2024 Dec; 29(6):675-683.

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P?rez CM, L?pez-Cepero A, Almod?var-Rivera I, Kiefe CI, Tucker KL, Person SD, Mattei J, Rodr?guez-Orengo J, Rosal MC. Cardiovascular Health Among Young Men and Women in Puerto Rico as Assessed by the Life's Essential 8 Metrics. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Oct 15; 13(20):e035052.

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