"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.
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
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| 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
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| 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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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.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1998 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 1999 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2000 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2001 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2002 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2003 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 2004 | 0 | 15 | 15 |
| 2005 | 0 | 15 | 15 |
| 2006 | 0 | 20 | 20 |
| 2007 | 0 | 29 | 29 |
| 2008 | 0 | 22 | 22 |
| 2009 | 0 | 23 | 23 |
| 2010 | 0 | 23 | 23 |
| 2011 | 0 | 16 | 16 |
| 2012 | 0 | 31 | 31 |
| 2013 | 0 | 29 | 29 |
| 2014 | 0 | 18 | 18 |
| 2015 | 0 | 31 | 31 |
| 2016 | 0 | 46 | 46 |
| 2017 | 0 | 30 | 30 |
| 2018 | 0 | 33 | 33 |
| 2019 | 0 | 26 | 26 |
| 2020 | 0 | 38 | 38 |
| 2021 | 0 | 18 | 18 |
| 2022 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 2023 | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 2024 | 0 | 12 | 12 |
| 2025 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Risk Factors" by people in Profiles.
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Short-Term Effects of Peer-Bullying Victimization on Intimate Partner Violence. Am J Prev Med. 2025 Sep; 69(3):107943.
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Association of gene variant type and location with breast cancer risk in the general population. Ann Oncol. 2025 Aug; 36(8):954-963.
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Unplanned reinterventions after congenital cardiac surgery and hospital mortality: A report from the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4). J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2025 Nov; 170(5):1234-1241.e8.
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Associations Between Socioeconomic Factors and Neovascular Glaucoma in a United States Medicare Population. J Glaucoma. 2025 Nov 01; 34(11):940-945.
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Early life stress and pubertal predictors of subsequent substance use in a national diverse sample of adolescents: Sex and substance type matter. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2025 Mar 01; 268:112551.
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Why protein-energy wasting leads to faster progression of chronic kidney disease. Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens. 2025 Jan 01; 34(1):55-66.
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Predictors of seropositivity to SARS-CoV-2 among employees at a large urban medical center. BMC Public Health. 2024 10 09; 24(1):2754.
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Patient-Specific Myocardial Infarction Risk Thresholds From AI-Enabled Coronary Plaque Analysis. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2024 Oct; 17(10):e016958.
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Associations between Statin Use and Glaucoma in the All of Us Research Program. Ophthalmol Glaucoma. 2024 Nov-Dec; 7(6):563-571.
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Association of Open-Angle Glaucoma With Dementia in California Medicare Beneficiaries. Am J Ophthalmol. 2024 Dec; 268:165-173.