Perhaps even more important, at least in the short-term, is Greece re-emerging as the primary risk-factor within the widening Euro-crisis, by there resounding rejection of the Euro-centric, pro-bailout incumbents in favor of anti-bailout parties.
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Kim said her results didn't change with the child's birth order -- another possible allergy risk factor -- or if the child was male or female.
"That risk can be reduced by simple lifestyle changes, such as not smoking, drinking alcohol sensibly, exercising regularly and eating a healthy, balanced diet to reduce the risk of obesity - a major contributory factor increasing the risk of diabetes and eventually cardiac disease, " he added.
Permitting the non-disclosure of a pivotal risk factor, such as a genetic-test result, would undermine one of the fundamentals of insurance.
Alcohol is the third-leading risk factor for poor health in the world.
But a more recent study of 12, 000 American men and women found that high Lp-PLA2 levels were an independent heart-disease risk factor mainly in those patients with relatively low cholesterol levels.
In a step towards the long-awaited era of personalized medicine, Iceland's DeCode Genetics has discovered a new genetic risk factor for the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.
Professor Cnattingius said the caffeine risk was confined to non-smokers but said smoking was itself a risk factor and may have concealed the caffeine related risk.
Diadexus inherited from SmithKline the new heart risk factor, called Lp-PLA2, or lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2.
Google also has its own flight and hotel search product, which Kayak lists as a risk factor in the S-1.
It is a powerful risk factor for these cancers -- almost as powerful as cigarette smoking is for lung cancer.
Cholesterol is clearly not the only risk factor for cardiovascular disease -- half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal levels of LDL, or bad cholesterol -- but the accuracy of CRP as a predictor of cardiac risk has been disputed.
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"Thus, E-4 appears as a risk factor for both heart disease and Alzheimer's disease, two major causes of mortality and morbidity at advanced ages, " Francois Schachter and his colleagues at the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphisms, a genetic-research center in Paris, conclude in a report.
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Forty-nine percent and 61% of overweight and obese adolescents, respectively, had at least one risk factor, compared to just 37% of normal-weight kids.
Chan highlighted the current state of the Eurozone as another factor putting downward pressure on risk-assets.
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On the other hand, those who aren't getting seven hours of sleep may be kept up by another condition -- anxiety, sleep apnea, or an undiagnosed illness -- that could be the real risk factor.
The concept of a derivative product, with a value that depends on at least one risk factor, has been the greatest financial-product innovation of the 20th century.
Another risk factor is a condition called delusional disorder -- and in particular the "persecutory type" -- that causes people to believe that someone is plotting against them, Rossiter said.
Diadexus drew headlines last month when it helped identify what may be a new risk factor in heart disease: a little-known protein produced by the body that can double the risk of heart attacks.
This model expands on the Fama-French Three-Factor Model by adding a stock momentum risk factor.
The increase in investor risk appetite recently has been a bearish factor for safe-haven gold, and to a lesser extent silver.
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This is based on estimates of the impact on inactivity on coronary heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, and two specfic cancers - breast and bowel - where lack of exercise is a major risk factor.
There is strong scientific evidence that excess body fat is a risk factor for cancer, as well as other non-communicable diseases such as heart disease and diabetes.
One low-volatility stock is Fortune Brands (nyse: FO - news - people ), which has a 52-week beta of 0.52 and a Barra Risk Factor of only 5.
He points to the incident involving Danny Fitzsimons - who shot dead Scottish security contractor Paul McGuigan and another colleague in Iraq in 2009 while suffering from PTSD - as evidence that the condition is a very real risk factor for those working as private security contractors.
This instrument monitors high-energy radiation considered to be a health risk to astronauts and a factor in whether microbes could survive on Mars' surface.
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It is also a potent risk factor for ischemic stroke, increasing the risk of stroke 5-fold and accounting for approximately 15% of all strokes nationally.
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The most popular form of borrowing for business is still credit cards and the 11 percent-28 percent or so they charge poses a plenty big risk factor for startups.
Because LDL cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease, it's the main focus of cholesterol-lowering treatment.
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