"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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| 1995 | 0 | 18 | 18 |
| 1996 | 0 | 17 | 17 |
| 1997 | 0 | 24 | 24 |
| 1998 | 0 | 35 | 35 |
| 1999 | 0 | 33 | 33 |
| 2000 | 0 | 37 | 37 |
| 2001 | 0 | 31 | 31 |
| 2002 | 0 | 51 | 51 |
| 2003 | 0 | 53 | 53 |
| 2004 | 0 | 65 | 65 |
| 2005 | 0 | 82 | 82 |
| 2006 | 0 | 79 | 79 |
| 2007 | 0 | 101 | 101 |
| 2008 | 0 | 93 | 93 |
| 2009 | 0 | 111 | 111 |
| 2010 | 0 | 110 | 110 |
| 2011 | 0 | 106 | 106 |
| 2012 | 0 | 107 | 107 |
| 2013 | 0 | 133 | 133 |
| 2014 | 0 | 146 | 146 |
| 2015 | 0 | 122 | 122 |
| 2016 | 0 | 132 | 132 |
| 2017 | 0 | 137 | 137 |
| 2018 | 0 | 65 | 65 |
| 2019 | 0 | 96 | 96 |
| 2020 | 0 | 108 | 108 |
| 2021 | 0 | 63 | 63 |
| 2022 | 0 | 52 | 52 |
| 2023 | 0 | 39 | 39 |
| 2024 | 0 | 30 | 30 |
| 2025 | 0 | 52 | 52 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Risk Factors" by people in Profiles.
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Antiviral Treatment Reduces Risk of Development of Lung Cancer and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2025 Nov 03; 34(11):2025-2031.
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Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry-Derived Adiposity and Colorectal Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Postmenopausal Women. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2025 Oct 03; 34(10):1801-1809.
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Risk of perioperative mortality and venous thromboembolism after total hip or knee arthroplasty with recent COVID-19 infection: an observational study from the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Database. Acta Orthop. 2025 Sep 17; 96:692-697.
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Medical Imaging and Pediatric and Adolescent Hematologic Cancer Risk. N Engl J Med. 2025 Oct 02; 393(13):1269-1278.
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Incidence of Heart Failure in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Other Pacific Islander Populations. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2025 Sep 09; 86(10):725-734.
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PREVENT and PCE Models for Estimating ASCVD Risk Stratified by Statin Exposure. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Sep 02; 8(9):e2532164.
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Integrating breast cancer polygenic risk scores at scale in the WISDOM Study: a national randomized personalized screening trial. Genome Med. 2025 Aug 28; 17(1):97.
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Large-scale GWAS of strabismus identifies risk loci and provides support for a link with maternal smoking. Nat Commun. 2025 Aug 23; 16(1):7890.
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Adverse childhood experiences, resilience, and substance use during early pregnancy. Prev Med. 2025 Oct; 199:108388.
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Overall and central adiposity and risk of contralateral breast cancer: The California Breast Cancer Survivorship Consortium. Int J Cancer. 2026 Jan 01; 158(1):69-83.