Risk Factors

"Risk Factors" 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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An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiological evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.

Descriptor ID	D012307
MeSH Number(s)	E05.318.740.600.800.725 N05.715.350.200.700 N05.715.360.750.625.700.700 N06.850.490.625.750 N06.850.520.830.600.800.725
Concept/Terms	Risk Factors Risk Factors Factor, Risk Factors, Risk Risk Factor Population at Risk Population at Risk Risk, Population at Populations at Risk Risk, Populations at

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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 Factors [E05.318.740.600.800.725]
Health Care [N]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality of Health Care [N05.715]
Epidemiologic Factors [N05.715.350]
Causality [N05.715.350.200]
Risk Factors [N05.715.350.200.700]
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 Factors [N05.715.360.750.625.700.700]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Epidemiologic Factors [N06.850.490]
Causality [N06.850.490.625]
Risk Factors [N06.850.490.625.750]
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 Factors [N06.850.520.830.600.800.725]

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

Bar chart showing 3794 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 228 publications in 2020

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	0	19	19
1996	0	24	24
1997	0	18	18
1998	0	31	31
1999	0	43	43
2000	0	38	38
2001	0	47	47
2002	0	52	52
2003	0	73	73
2004	0	75	75
2005	0	107	107
2006	0	110	110
2007	0	124	124
2008	0	140	140
2009	1	146	147
2010	0	177	177
2011	1	181	182
2012	0	182	182
2013	0	201	201
2014	0	216	216
2015	0	205	205
2016	0	201	201
2017	0	226	226
2018	0	205	205
2019	0	173	173
2020	0	228	228
2021	0	151	151
2022	0	130	130
2023	0	109	109
2024	0	116	116
2025	0	44	44

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

Vieira de Oliveira Salerno PR, Lewis PGT, Chen Z, Dazard JE, Ganatra S, Ahmed EN, Nasir K, Deo SV, Rajagopalan S, Al-Kindi S. Climate Vulnerability and Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Disease in the United?States. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025 Jun 03; 14(11):e038251.

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Tu W, Gawrieh S, Nephew L, McClain C, Tang Q, Dasarathy S, Vatsalya V, Simonetto DA, Kettler C, Szabo G, Barton B, Yu Y, Kamath PS, Sanyal AJ, Nagy L, Mitchell MC, Liangpunsakul S, Shah VH, Chalasani N, Bataller R. Parental liver disease mortality is associated with unfavorable outcomes in patients with alcohol-associated hepatitis. Hepatol Commun. 2025 Jun 01; 9(6).

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Shi L, Simas TAM, Lichtenstein AH, Zhang Y, Sun Q, Hayman LL. Urinary enterolignan concentrations and cardiometabolic risk biomarkers in pregnant US women. Nutr J. 2025 May 22; 24(1):82.

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Sibley S, Bedford J, Wetterslev M, Johnston B, Garside T, Kanji S, Whitehouse T, Welters I, Ostermann M, Balik M, Lancini D, Dharmaraj B, Benjamin EJ, Walkey AJ, Cuthbertson BH. Atrial fibrillation in critical illness: state of the art. Intensive Care Med. 2025 May; 51(5):904-916.

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Goyal A, Saeed H, Sulaiman SA, Sultan W, Siddiqui MR, Kan Changez MI, Qamar A, Ganatra S, Dani SS. Emerging trends and disparities in cardiovascular, kidney, and diabetes-related mortality: A retrospective analysis of the wide-ranging online data for epidemiologic research database. PLoS One. 2025; 20(5):e0320670.

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Zorrilla-Vaca A, Grant MC, Mendez-Pino L, Rehman MJ, Sarin P, Nasra S, Varelmann D. Preoperative Multivariable Model for Risk Stratification of Hypoxemia During One-Lung Ventilation. Anesth Analg. 2025 May 01; 140(5):1029-1036.

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Wong AH, Sapre AV, Wang K, Nath B, Shah D, Kumar A, Faustino IV, Desai R, Hu Y, Robinson L, Meng C, Tong G, Bernstein SL, Yonkers KA, Melnick ER, Dziura JD, Taylor RA. Predicting Agitation Events in the Emergency Department Through Artificial Intelligence. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 May 01; 8(5):e258927.

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Day-Lewis ME, Berbert L, DeGrazia M, Yee C, Fried AJ, Nguyen AA, Hale JE, Counihan A, Comeau AM, Treffeisen ER, Reed MP, Platt CD, Chou J. Incidence and risk factors for CMV and EBV infection in infants with low T-cell receptor excision circles on newborn screen. Clin Immunol. 2025 Aug; 277:110510.

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Playter KP, Reddington H, Ballinger ZC, Czerniach DR, Freitas GS, Kelly JJ, Cherng NB, Perugini RA. Evaluation of hemorrhage risk and the volume-outcome relationship following vertical sleeve gastrectomy amidst robotic-assisted surgery adoption. Surg Endosc. 2025 Jun; 39(6):3702-3709.

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O'Leary RM, Wingfield A, Lyons MJ, Franz CE, Kremen WS. Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Age-Related Hearing Loss: Results from a Longitudinal Twin Study. Trends Hear. 2025 Jan-Dec; 29:23312165251320156.

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