risk factor

Definitions

Commerce

• noun the amount of risk involved in carrying out a project or other business activity

Health Economics

• (written as Risk Factor)
  A probabilistic determinant of ill-health. An element of behaviour, one's history, genetic inheritance, early parenting, exposure to harmful micro-organisms, environment, etc. that increases the probability of becoming diseased or having an injury.

Medical

• noun a characteristic that increases a person’s likelihood of getting a particular disease

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