geographical location, or a combination of these risk factors. High-risk people can be of any age. High-risk populations are vulnerable to serious illness...

determinant of an individual's standard of health. Risk factors may be used to identify high-risk people. Risk factors or determinants are correlational and...

economics and finance, risk aversion is the tendency of people to prefer outcomes with low uncertainty to those outcomes with high uncertainty, even if...

the flu. Many medical organizations recommend it in people who have complications or are at high risk of complications within 48 hours of first symptoms...

A high risk severe weather event is the greatest threat level issued by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) for convective weather events in the United...

of people exposed. Hazards with high perceived risk are in general seen as less acceptable and more in need of reduction. Cultural Theory views risk perception...

the virus making them high risk population. Rates of transmission of Parvovirus B19 is highest in household settings with people living with infected persons...

It is taken by mouth. In unvaccinated high-risk people with COVID‑19, nirmatrelvir/ritonavir can reduce the risk of hospitalization or death by 88% if...

failure, and anaphylaxis. Use is not recommended in people at high risk for heart disease. The risks are similar to other NSAIDs, such as ibuprofen and...

play a role. Risk factors include smoking, ionizing radiation, petrochemicals (such as benzene), prior chemotherapy, and Down syndrome. People with a family...

500–2,500 metres or 4,900–8,200 feet in people who are at a higher risk or are more vulnerable to the effects of high altitude. Classically, HAPE occurs in...

Information technology risk, IT risk, IT-related risk, or cyber risk is any risk relating to information technology. While information has long been appreciated...

improving risk factors through: healthy eating, exercise, avoidance of tobacco smoke and limiting alcohol intake. Treating risk factors, such as high blood...

Disaster risk reduction aims to make disasters less likely to happen. The approach, also called DRR or disaster risk management, also aims to make disasters...

Risk management is the identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks, followed by the minimization, monitoring, and control of the impact or...

ovarian cancer is higher for women with a high-risk BRCA1 mutation than with a BRCA2 mutation. Having a high-risk mutation does not guarantee that the woman...

Risk perception is the subjective judgement that people make about the characteristics and severity of a risk. Risk perceptions often differ from statistical...

chance of a severe loss. Consequently, people are often risk seeking in dealing with improbable gains and risk averse in dealing with unlikely losses...

diabetes, high cholesterol, or high blood pressure are sometimes used. There is limited evidence for screening people who are at low risk and do not...

market risk, liquidity risk, credit risk, business risk and investment risk. The four standard market risk factors are equity risk, interest rate risk, currency...

High Risk is a 1981 American-British-Mexican adventure heist film directed by Stewart Raffill and stars James Brolin, Lindsay Wagner, Cleavon Little,...

and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) of 3 mmol/L. For people at high risk of cardiovascular disease, the recommended limit for total cholesterol...

Seismic risk or earthquake risk is the potential impact on the built environment and on people's well-being due to future earthquakes. Seismic risk has been...

Risk appetite is the level of risk that an organization is prepared to accept in pursuit of its objectives, before action is deemed necessary to reduce...

diabetes develops high blood sugar levels during pregnancy. Gestational diabetes generally results in few symptoms; however, it increases the risk of pre-eclampsia...

Value at risk (VaR) is a measure of the risk of loss of investment/capital. It estimates how much a set of investments might lose (with a given probability)...

Existential risk from artificial intelligence refers to the idea that substantial progress in artificial general intelligence (AGI) could lead to human...

CHA2DS2-VASc score, are clinical prediction rules for estimating the risk of stroke in people with non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation (AF), a common and serious...

with high risk of death or major cardiovascular disease, but the association between high sodium intake and adverse outcomes is only observed in people with...

Risk compensation is a theory which suggests that people typically adjust their behavior in response to perceived levels of risk, becoming more careful...