risk of illness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofriskandillness
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risk
noun
uk/rɪsk/us/rɪsk/
the possibility of something ...
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illness
noun
uk/ˈɪl.nəs/us/ˈɪl.nəs/
a disease of the body ...
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(Definition ofriskandillnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The relative risk is theriskofillnessin the exposed divided by theriskofillnessin the unexposed.
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The causal nature of the association between parental loss and subsequentriskofillnessremains uncertain.
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For schoolchildren, theriskofillnessincreased with increasing amount of water consumed.
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Public education and patron behaviour modification are also critical to reduce theriskofillness.
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Thus, individuals experiencing low strain are hypothesized to have a lower than averageriskofillnessand psychological disturbance.
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Even with these precautions, some level ofriskofillnessassociated with the consumption of cantaloupes remains.
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At all levels of univariate analysis, the receipt of methadone was associated with a significantly lowerriskofillness.
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More contamination means higherriskofillness.
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What steps can consumers attempting to follow a healthy diet take to minimize theriskofillnessassociated with potentially contaminated cantaloupes?
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In both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia theriskofillnessin siblings is about 10 times greater than the population risk.
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The immediate interpretation seems to be that households who store water are at an increased riskofillnesscompared to those who do not store drinking water.
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However, medicine and psychiatry have many examples in which genes not only influence overall riskofillness, but also modulate the pathogenic impact of environmental stressors.
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Their ownriskofillnessmay be an expensive one indeed.
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Untreated sewage discharged into bathing water brings theriskofillness, ranging from salmonella poisoning to hepatitis.
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Factors increasing theriskofillnesssince 2001 include longer mission durations and more cockpit activity.
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Also, people who do not believe that stress will affect their health do not have an increasedriskofillness, disease, or death.
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Practitioners emphasize education and effective communication as a part of illness prevention because many people do not recognize, or minimize, theriskofillnesspresent in their lives.
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