Look up: Risk Factor

1. risk factor
   Type: Term Definitions: 1. a characteristic statistically associated with, although not necessarily causally related to, an increased risk of morbidity or mortality, smoking as a risk factor for heart disease.
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2. Risk Factor
   Characteristics (e.g., race, sex, age, obesity) or variables (e.g., smoking, occupational exposure level) associated with increased probability of a toxic effect.
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3. Risk Factor
   Any characteristic, behavior, or condition which, based on history, utilization, or theory, is thought to directly influence susceptibility to a specific health problem, increase costs or result in increased utilization.
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4. Risk factor
   The risk factor (delta) indicates the risk of an option position relative to that of the related futures contract.
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5. risk factor
   anything that raises the chances of a person developing a disease.
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6. Risk factor
   Risk factor: Something that increases a person's chances of developing a disease.
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7. risk factor
   <statistics> A clearly defined occurrence or characteristic that has been associated with the increased rate of a subsequently occurring disease. ... (14 Oct 1997) ...
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8. risk factor
   an agent or situation that is known to carry a risk, making an individual or population more susceptible to the development of a specific negative condition.
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9. risk factor
   (from the article `nutritional disease`) The concept of `risk factors` has been part of the public vocabulary for several decades, ever since the landmark Framingham Heart Study, begun in ...
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10. risk factor
    a clearly defined occurrence or characteristic that has been associated with the increased rate of a subsequently occurring disease
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11. Risk factor
    In arbitrage pricing theory or the multibeta capital asset pricing model, the set of common factors that impact returns, e.g., market return, interest rates, inflation, or industrial production.
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12. risk factor
    a variable that affects the value of financial instruments or an entire portfolio. The most common market risk factors are interest rates, foreign exchange rates, equity prices and commodity prices....
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13. risk factor
    a variable that affects the value of financial instruments or an entire portfolio. The most common market risk factors are interest rates, foreign exchange rates, equity prices and commodity prices....
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14. Risk Factor
    A characteristic or variable that is associated with an increased chance of developing a complication. During pregnancy, risk factors include age, weight, tobacco use, drug abuse, alcohol usage and other factors. Other factors include maternal health, environemental exposure and stress.
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15. risk factor
    Something that increases the chance of developing a disease. Some examples of risk factors for cancer are age, a family history of certain cancers, use of tobacco products, being exposed to radiation or certain chemicals, infection with certain viruses or bacteria, and certain genetic changes.
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16. Risk factor
    In epidemiology, a `risk factor` is a variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection. Sometimes, `determinant` is also used, being a variable associated with either increased or decreased risk. Risk factors or determinants are correlational and not necessarily causal, because cor...
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17. Risk factor
    (finance) A risk factor is a concept in finance theory such as the CAPM, APT and other theories that use pricing kernels. In these models, the rate of return of an asset (hence the converse its price) is a random variable whose realization in any time period is a linear combination of ...
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18. Risk factor
    (criminology) `Risk factor` research has proliferated within the discipline of Criminology in recent years, based largely on the early work of Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck in the USA and David Farrington in the UK. The identification of risk factors that are allegedly predictive of offending an...
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19. Risk factor
    (disambiguation) `Risk factor` can refer to something influencing the likelihood of an event; The exact meaning is specific to different types of risk studied by different disciplines:
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20. Risk factor
    (computing) In Information security, `Risk factor` is a collectively name for circumstances affecting the likelihood or the impact of a security risk. Definitions : FAIR : ISACA : Risk factors are those factors that influence the frequency and/or business impact of risk scenarios; they can be...
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21. Risk or risk factor
    Risk is a term that is used by epidemiologists to quantify the likelihood that something will occur. A risk factor is something, which either increases or decreases an individual's risk of developing a disease. However, it does not mean that, if exposed, an individual will definitely contract a particular disease.
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