The excessive focus on the short-term has resulted in a significant underestimation of low probability but high risks and in the increase of risk-taking behaviour.

过度注重短期利益会导致对其低可行性高风险性的严重低估，增加冒险行为。

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Obesity can increase the risk of heart disease.

肥胖会增加患心脏病的危险。

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Smoking can increase the risk of developing heart disease.

吸烟会增加得心脏病的危险。

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The mutations in these genes can increase the risk for other kinds of cancer, including cancer of the cervix, uterus and pancreas.

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For any given level of return, you can reduce the risk; for any given level of risk, you can increase the return; sounds pretty good.

给定回报率,可以降低风险,给定风险水平,可以提高回报率,听上去不错

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You can see that when you get out to the highest groups here, the highest weights, the relative risk is up at two and a half or three, so that would be a 200% increase in risk for cardiovascular death or two to three times the risk of death.

当我们看图上相对风险最高的这组,也就是体重最大的这组,这组的相对风险大约是2.5倍到3倍,即心血管疾病致死的风险增加了200%,或者说增加了2到3倍

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" They cite a study that found that without factoring in the effects of climate change, "the global population at risk from malaria would increase by 100% by 2080, whereas the effect of climate change would increase the risk of malaria by at most 7%.

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In this study, people with anxiety had a 26 percent increase in the risk of heart disease and a 48 percent increase in the risk of dying of heart-related causes.

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But it did not affect the risk of heart disease or increase the risk of breast cancer within the length of the study.

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