"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 | 14 | 14 |
| 1997 | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 1998 | 0 | 12 | 12 |
| 1999 | 0 | 18 | 18 |
| 2000 | 0 | 18 | 18 |
| 2001 | 0 | 18 | 18 |
| 2002 | 0 | 33 | 33 |
| 2003 | 0 | 23 | 23 |
| 2004 | 0 | 29 | 29 |
| 2005 | 0 | 41 | 41 |
| 2006 | 0 | 39 | 39 |
| 2007 | 0 | 43 | 43 |
| 2008 | 0 | 45 | 45 |
| 2009 | 0 | 52 | 52 |
| 2010 | 0 | 81 | 81 |
| 2011 | 0 | 65 | 65 |
| 2012 | 0 | 80 | 80 |
| 2013 | 0 | 89 | 89 |
| 2014 | 0 | 68 | 68 |
| 2015 | 0 | 92 | 92 |
| 2016 | 0 | 115 | 115 |
| 2017 | 0 | 99 | 99 |
| 2018 | 0 | 106 | 106 |
| 2019 | 0 | 118 | 118 |
| 2020 | 0 | 102 | 102 |
| 2021 | 0 | 87 | 87 |
| 2022 | 0 | 56 | 56 |
| 2023 | 0 | 24 | 24 |
| 2024 | 0 | 28 | 28 |
| 2025 | 0 | 27 | 27 |
| 2026 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Risk Factors" by people in Profiles.
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Using Alcohol and Sleep Sensors to Understand Blackout Risk in Young Adults' Natural Settings (The Lights Out Study): Protocol for an Intensive Longitudinal Pilot Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2026 Jan 21; 15:e83980.
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Significance and Implications of Prostate Cancer: Critical Overview for Future Directions in Africa. Cancer Invest. 2026 Mar; 44(3):328-349.
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Early gastrostomy is associated with more efficient healthcare resource utilization in nontraumatic intracerebral hemorrhage patients. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2026 Feb; 35(2):108536.
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"This needs to be told to everyone": Content analysis of written immediate responses from an online experiment examining health warning messages about alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk. PLoS One. 2025; 20(12):e0338687.
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Major Complications following Strabismus Surgery: Nine-year Data from the IRIS? Registry. Ophthalmology. 2026 Apr; 133(4):495-498.
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Adverse childhood experiences, adult hardships, and disease severity in peripheral artery disease. J Vasc Surg. 2026 Mar; 83(3):848-858.e4.
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Predictors of mortality and major complications after colostomy reversal: An analysis of national surgical quality improvement program database. Am J Surg. 2026 Feb; 252:116713.
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Impact of aortic root abscess on outcomes in infective endocarditis and predictors of in-hospital mortality: A meta-analysis. Heart Lung. 2026 Jan-Feb; 75:337-346.
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Impaired Perfusion and Early Ischemic Stroke Recurrence in Symptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerosis: BIORISK ICAS Study. Stroke. 2026 Jan; 57(1):96-106.
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Lifestyle data-based multiclass obesity prediction with interpretable ensemble models incorporating SHAP and LIME analysis. Sci Rep. 2025 Oct 22; 15(1):36916.