How to Use risk factor in a Sentence

risk factor

noun

• Age is one of the risk factors for this disease.
• Case said her study did not find that ships’ age was a risk factor.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
• Premature birth is a risk factor for death in the first 28 days to one year of an infant's life.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2023
• Stress is a definite risk factor, and can lead to a relapse.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
• But for all 12 final, the degree of difficulty – and the risk factor – will go up with medals on the line.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2022
• Getting pregnant for the first time at age 35 or later is a risk factor for breast cancer.
  — Amanda Morris, Lindsey Bever and Sabrina Malhi, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
• As much as 80 percent of the overall risk factor could be genetic.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2023
• One of the biggest benefits of calisthenics is the low risk factor, says Beck.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 1 Mar. 2023
• Last year, the company had listed the venture as a risk factor, as it could be hurt by U.S.-China politics.
  — Shannon Liao, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
• More than half of those patients have a food, housing or isolation risk factor, CVS said.
  — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
• Having high blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke.
  — Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
• In the United States, poor diet is the leading risk factor for death from diseases, even greater than tobacco.
  — Nisha Patel, STAT, 27 Dec. 2023
• Advanced age actually doesn’t seem to be a big risk factor, Tanya.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 31 May 2022
• One risk factor the board had to weigh every year was the uncertainty of the money from the Legislature.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 22 July 2022
• But many ignore the major risk factor for all of these diseases: aging itself.
  — Aditi Gurkar, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2023
• One other big finding was that severe disease wasn’t a risk factor.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 31 May 2022
• Now, Covid-19 may need to be considered a risk factor for diabetes.
  — Tasnim Ahmed, CNN, 28 Mar. 2022
• This patient’s biggest risk factor was her exposure to her once-wild cats.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• This means diabetes is an emerging risk factor for CRC.
  — Michelle Pugle, Health, 22 Nov. 2023
• Overheating is a risk factor for SIDS, but it can be avoided by taking the right precautions.
  — Casey Clark, Parents, 5 Mar. 2024
• While age remains a strong risk factor with Covid, vaccines and treatments have greatly decreased the threat of grave illness, experts said.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 29 Apr. 2022
• Age is the single biggest risk factor for dementia, with the odds doubling about every five years after age 65.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 15 June 2022
• Per the study, having a pet helped reduce loneliness, which is risk factor for dementia.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 29 Jan. 2024
• High blood pressure, a primary risk factor for stroke, often starts at a younger age and is more severe in Black women than in white women.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 22 Jan. 2024
• But the ride was tempered by the reality that such an undertaking has a real risk factor.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 14 June 2022
• Age is the greatest risk factor; the older a person becomes, the greater their risk for developing Lewy body dementia.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2023
• Even for vaccinated and boosted people, age remains the top risk factor for severe illness from the virus.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2022
• The presence of detectable autoantibodies is the risk factor, but the level is important, too, says Heath.
  — Karen Pallarito, Health.com, 28 Jan. 2022
• Inflammation is known to be a risk factor for development of heart disease and stroke.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 16 Mar. 2022
• This single bacterium is by far the No. 1 risk factor in stomach cancers worldwide.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024