| risk patient | Patient who is at risk, because of his/her behaviour or because of the type of person he/she is. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| risk reduction | Techniques used to reduce your chances of getting a certain cancer. For example: reducing your dietary fat may help prevent breast cancer. (09 Oct 1997) |
| risk-taking | Undertaking a task involving a challenge for achievement or a desirable goal in which there is a lack of certainty or a fear of failure. It may also include the exhibiting of certain behaviours whose outcomes may present a risk to the individual or to those associated with him or her. (12 Dec 1998) |
| competing risk | An event that removes a subject from being at risk for an outcome under investigation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pregnancy, high-risk | Pregnancy in which the mother and/or foetus are at greater than normal risk of morbidity or mortality. Causes include lack of adequate prenatal care, previous obstetrical history, pre-existing maternal disease or pregnancy-induced disease, and multiple gestation, as well as advanced maternal age. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health risk assessment | Method of describing an individual's chance of falling ill or dying of a specified condition, based on actuarial calculations that allow for known exposure to risk; expressed as expected age at which death or disease will occur, and intended as a way of drawing an individual's attention to the probable consequences of risk behaviour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oesophageal carcinoma risk factors | <radiology> P Plummer-Vinson Web, A achalasia, alcohol, B Barrett oesophagus, S stricture, T tylosis, tobacco see: oesophageal carcinoma (12 Dec 1998) |
| thyroid carcinoma risk factors | <radiology> Increased risk of malignancy: young female, male, history of radiation to head or neck, hard lesion, other neck masses, no shrinkage on TSH, family hx of thyroid carcinoma see: thyroid carcinoma (12 Dec 1998) |
| empiric risk | The chance that a disease will occur in a family based upon experience (past history, medical records, etc.) rather than theory. (12 Dec 1998) |