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.

Read more about Risk Factor:  Correlation Vs Causation, Terms of Description, Example, General Determinants, Risk Marker, History

Famous quotes containing the words risk and/or factor:

    “We saw the risk we took in doing good,
    But dared not spare to do the best we could
    Though harm should come of it”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “You factor in racism as a reality and you keep moving.”
    —Jewell Jackson McCabe (b. 1945)