Compared to men, women less
often know the risk factors and take part in screening.
Not exact matches
Not all the causes of stillbirth are currently
known, but experience from other countries suggests that if pregnant women
know the
risk factors, the signs to look out for and when to seek help, this can reduce how
often stillbirth happens.
«I was taught that SCAD was rare and the causes entirely unknown, but through our partnership with SCAD survivors and their families, clues are emerging that may change that,» says Sharonne Hayes, M.D., senior author and cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. «We
know from previous research that SCAD occurs most
often in younger women with no or minimal cardiovascular
risk factors, like high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
Obesity is a
known risk factor for many cancers including colon cancer, yet the reasons behind the colon cancer link have
often remained unclear.
«While people
know stress plays a role in how they feel physically, they're
often unaware that it is a
risk factor for heart disease,» says Suzanne Steinbaum, MD, an attending cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
While complex statistical methods are
often used to «control» or «account» for students» levels of
risk or
risk factors, much debate exists about the extent to which such statistical controls,
no matter how sophisticated, indeed work (e.g., to partly / wholly eliminate «bias»).
For many years, active fund managers and institutional investors have
often used a
factor - based approach either to strategically construct portfolios or to tilt their portfolios toward well -
known risk factors, such as low volatility, value, momentum, dividend, size, and quality, to capture the
factor risk premium.
As readers will
know, insurance companies
often justify higher premiums based on a criterion of «
risk factors», such as age, geographic location, vehicle make and model, etc..
Short, or accelerated, courtships are a
risk factor for poor marital outcomes, including divorce (i.e., «the quicker they rise, the harder they fall»).1 The reasons for this association are fairly obvious: it is very hard for two individuals to truly get to
know each other and gauge long - term compatibility in a short amount of time, and very
often individuals base their relationships on feelings of passion that are highly variable (see «Am I in love?»).