The researchers said the hair cortisol levels were a better predictor of heart attack than established risk factors like high blood pressure.

VOA: special.2010.10.12

Other risk factors for a silent stroke are high blood pressure, heart disease,diabetes and tobacco use.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

Other risk factors are repeatedly putting stress on a joint or having an earlier injury.

VOA: special.2010.05.19

Researchers believe a combination of environmental and genetic factors may be responsible.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

The researchers found that cultural and environmental factors make a difference.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

But for now,he says, doctors should depend on traditional risk factors.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

This is something that we point out in our report just says further evidence that cultural factors and societal factors can make a difference in who achieves at the very high levels and if girls are achieving or not."

VOA: special.2010.04.01

"What we have found is that we are not seeing the factors that were associated with the 1918 pandemic.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

He says these factors improve the chances for providing quality health care, because of the shared identity between doctor and patient.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

Scientific eExpert in WHO's Mental Health and Substance Abuse Department, Alexandra Fleischmann says risk factors vary in different cultures.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

Those factors made it very difficult for radar to detect the vessel before it crossed into North Korean waters.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

Are there any other factors that could explain these findings, and did you look at these factors?

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

Officials working on election issues in the South say violence is just one of the factors that could complicate next month's scheduled vote.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

Now,one of the factors that will help is more certainty with regard to actions out of Washington.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07