Those who did try cigarettes and had a high-risk gene score were more likely to become heavy smokers.

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Perhaps the most intriguing idea discussed at demo day was advanced by Clinicast, an analytics company that aspires to develop an industry-standard health risk score, analogous to the FICO credit score.

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Depending on the results of both checks, the system would assign a risk score to air travelers -- acceptable, unknown, or unacceptable.

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Sinclair and Taylor played a number of high-risk shots to advance the score and no sooner had the 50 partnership been posted then it should have been broken.

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Another risk-measurement tool, known as the Reynolds Risk Score, developed by Harvard University researchers in the 1990s, does consider if a patient's parent had a heart attack and at what age.

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If no attendant is present, however, the risk score goes up, because fraudsters prefer to avoid face-to-face purchases.

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The results showed that the people who had higher levels of infection had a 25 percent increase in the risk of a low score on a common test of cognition called the Mini-Mental State Examination.

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Compared to those with a score of 0 ideal health metrics, participants with a score of 3 had a 25 percent lower occurrence of cancer, and participants with a score of 6-7 had a 51 percent lower cancer risk.

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Poon plans to recruit 100 African-Americans who are very unlikely to have heart attacks according to a standard survey called the Framingham risk score.

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