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 3265 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 204 publications in 2014

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	0	13	13
1997	0	3	3
1998	0	10	10
1999	0	9	9
2000	0	7	7
2001	0	17	17
2002	0	49	49
2003	0	78	78
2004	0	81	81
2005	1	94	95
2006	0	96	96
2007	0	125	125
2008	0	141	141
2009	0	148	148
2010	0	140	140
2011	0	166	166
2012	0	159	159
2013	0	164	164
2014	0	204	204
2015	1	188	189
2016	0	175	175
2017	0	180	180
2018	0	193	193
2019	0	145	145
2020	0	161	161
2021	1	155	156
2022	0	83	83
2023	0	96	96
2024	0	99	99
2025	0	83	83

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Yan A, Kundu S, Samuels DC, Bailin S, Xu K, So-Armah K, Butt AA, Gerschenson M, Goetz MB, Doyle M, Tracy R, Marconi VC, Justice A, Freiberg M, Koethe JR, Hulgan T. Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroups, Biomarkers of Inflammation and Immune Activation, and Risk of Diabetes in Veterans With and Without Human Immunodeficiency Virus. J Infect Dis. 2025 Dec 20; 232(6):e1003-e1011.

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Sassano M, Nalini M, Seyyedsalehi MS, Roshandel G, Poustchi H, Khoshnia M, Kamangar F, Dawsey SM, Abnet C, Malekzadeh R, Boffetta P, Etemadi A. Body size and occupational physical activity during the life course and gastrointestinal cancers. Am J Epidemiol. 2025 Dec 02; 194(12):3451-3463.

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Sangaramoorthy M, Li Y, Gibbons J, Yang J, Ihenacho U, Lin K, Inamdar PP, Chen F, Wu AH, Haiman CA, Le Marchand L, Wilkens LR, Shariff-Marco S, Cheng I. Neighborhood racial and ethnic composition typology and breast cancer risk: the Multiethnic Cohort Study. Am J Epidemiol. 2025 Oct 07; 194(10):2775-2786.

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Mendy VL, Rowell-Cunsolo TL, Enkhmaa B. Asthma and Summary Measure of Social Determinants of Health/Health Equity Among Adults in Mississippi, 2022. Prev Chronic Dis. 2025 Sep 18; 22:E59.

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Chung SY, Levine JA, Schmied EA, Shero JC, Dearth CL, Belding JN. Impacts of Traumatic Brain Injury and Severe Limb Injury on Death by Suicide: Concurrent Investigations Using Path Analysis. J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2025 Sep-Oct 01; 40(5):E420-E429.

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Pradhan P, Wen W, Powers AC, Warren Andersen S, Sanderson M, Lipworth L, Zheng W. Associations of Type 2 Diabetes with Risk of Overall and Site-Specific Cancers in a Cohort of Predominantly Low-Income Racially Diverse Populations. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2025 Sep 02; 34(9):1627-1634.

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H?ilund-Carlsen PF, Alavi A, Costa T, Neve RL, Perry G, Revheim ME, Barrio JR. Is US residence a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease? J Alzheimers Dis. 2025 Sep; 107(2):496-498.

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Carter MW, Roman YM. Perspectives on the Epidemiology of Hyperuricemia and Gout in Older Adults. Sr Care Pharm. 2025 Sep 01; 40(9):365-372.

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Wanjerkhede P, Talavera G, Gallo LC, Crespo NC, Agalliu I, Olshan AF, Evenson KR, Rohan TE, Daviglus ML, Pirzada A, Parada H. Anthropometric measures and incidence of obesity-related cancers in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos Onco-SOL ancillary study. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2025 Sep 01; 9(5).

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Warren J, Ball J, Dawson L, Nehme E, Mahony E, Nanayakkara S, Chew DP, Kaye DM, Taylor A, Nehme Z, Stub D. Incidence and Predictors of Referral for Coronary Angiography and Revascularization in Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2025 Oct; 106(4):2713-2723.

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