"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 | 19 | 19 |
| 1996 | 0 | 20 | 20 |
| 1997 | 0 | 26 | 26 |
| 1998 | 0 | 35 | 35 |
| 1999 | 0 | 36 | 36 |
| 2000 | 0 | 43 | 43 |
| 2001 | 0 | 32 | 32 |
| 2002 | 0 | 54 | 54 |
| 2003 | 0 | 57 | 57 |
| 2004 | 0 | 68 | 68 |
| 2005 | 0 | 84 | 84 |
| 2006 | 0 | 83 | 83 |
| 2007 | 0 | 102 | 102 |
| 2008 | 0 | 101 | 101 |
| 2009 | 0 | 118 | 118 |
| 2010 | 0 | 111 | 111 |
| 2011 | 0 | 108 | 108 |
| 2012 | 0 | 110 | 110 |
| 2013 | 0 | 137 | 137 |
| 2014 | 0 | 148 | 148 |
| 2015 | 0 | 140 | 140 |
| 2016 | 0 | 140 | 140 |
| 2017 | 0 | 140 | 140 |
| 2018 | 0 | 68 | 68 |
| 2019 | 0 | 96 | 96 |
| 2020 | 0 | 113 | 113 |
| 2021 | 0 | 65 | 65 |
| 2022 | 0 | 51 | 51 |
| 2023 | 0 | 38 | 38 |
| 2024 | 0 | 31 | 31 |
| 2025 | 0 | 21 | 21 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Risk Factors" by people in Profiles.
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Chronic opioid use and incident opioid use disorders in survivors of adolescent and young adult cancer after cancer treatment. Cancer. 2025 May 15; 131(10):e35866.
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Maternal Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Pregnancy and Offspring Blood Pressure at Age 2 to 18 Years. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 May 01; 8(5):e259205.
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Differences in Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke Incidence Among Single-Race and Multiracial Asian and Pacific Islander Subgroups in Hawaii and California: A Retrospective Cohort Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025 May 06; 14(9):e039076.
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Development and validation of prediction algorithm to identify tuberculosis in two large California health systems. Nat Commun. 2025 Apr 10; 16(1):3385.
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Early Pregnancy Blood Pressure Trajectories and Hypertension Years After Pregnancy. Hypertension. 2025 May; 82(5):e75-e87.
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Social Risk and Acute Health Care Utilization Among Insured Adults. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Apr 01; 8(4):e254253.
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Association of genetic risk score for Alzheimer's disease with late-life body mass index in all of us: Evaluating reverse causation. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Apr; 21(4):e14598.
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Do type, timing and duration of life course non-employment differentially predict dementia risk? An application of sequence analysis. Soc Sci Med. 2025 May; 372:117976.
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Fetal exposure to gestational diabetes severity and postnatal infant feeding in the first year of life associated with preadolescent obesity: a prospective cohort. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2025 May; 33(5):996-1010.
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Cellular senescence predicts breast cancer risk from benign breast disease biopsy images. Breast Cancer Res. 2025 Mar 11; 27(1):37.