"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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2012 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2013 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2014 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2015 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 2016 | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 2017 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2018 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2019 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 2020 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| 2021 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2024 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 2025 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Risk Factors" by people in Profiles.
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Neighborhood factors and incident stroke: reproducibility of associations across two nationwide cohorts. Health Place. 2026 Mar; 98:103611.
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Identifying determinants of readmission and death post-stroke using explainable machine learning. PLoS One. 2025; 20(9):e0332371.
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Neighborhood characteristics and incident myocardial infarction in US older adults: evaluation in 2 nationwide cohorts. Am J Epidemiol. 2025 Sep 03; 194(9):2733-2743.
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Developing and Validating Machine Learning-Driven Risk Indices to Predict Patient Dropout During Referral, Evaluation, and Waitlisting for Kidney Transplant. Clin Transplant. 2025 Sep; 39(9):e70325.
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AI-enabled opportunistic measurement of liver steatosis in coronary artery calcium scans predicts cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality: an AI-CVD study within the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care. 2025 Apr 12; 13(2).
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Temporal Trends in Vascular Risk Factor Burden Among Young Adults With Ischemic Stroke: The Florida Stroke Registry. Neurology. 2025 Mar 25; 104(6):e213447.
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Pharmacovigilance Pregnancy Data in a Population of Japanese Patients With Chronic Inflammatory Disease Exposed to Certolizumab Pegol. Int J Rheum Dis. 2025 Jan; 28(1):e70048.
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Infection Risk Associated with High-Efficacy Disease-Modifying Agents in Multiple Sclerosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2025 Feb; 117(2):561-569.
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Sex-specific Associations between Left Ventricular Remodeling at MRI and Long-term Cardiovascular Risk. Radiology. 2024 Nov; 313(2):e232997.
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Risk of antimuscarinic initiation with cholinesterase inhibitor use in Alzheimer's disease. Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2025 Jan; 128:105629.