These risk factors appear to combine additively, e.g. white men aged over 65 have the highest compounded risk of suicide.
Imperfection has a compounding risk.
However, these applications could come without public input and could allow a compounded environmental risk to go unexamined, environmental groups warn.
Although many early approaches were focused on a single risk factor, recent efforts have been aimed at developing frameworks to address compounding risks.
Just on the basis of evolution, of how things go, we're overdue". Dr. Bruce Gellin, director of the National Vaccine Program Office, said: "You get this sense of compounding risks.
Regulations and educational materials should also be developed to help engineers, decision-makers and the public to minimize their exposure to compound risks and cascading disasters.
Using Women's Health Initiative WHII) data, we tested the hypotheses that 1) elevated depressive symptoms and antidepressant use would each be independently associated with an increased risk of diabetes, and 2) the combination of elevated depressive symptoms and antidepressant use would have a compounded effect on incident diabetes risk.
Because there are cases where women's lives are at risk – a risk compounded by having to travel, borrow money and get abortions abroad.
We consider the problem of computing optimal experimental designs with respect to a compound Bayes risk criterion, which includes various specific criteria, such as a linear criterion for prediction in a random coefficient regression model.
Additional factors, such as living with a disability, social and geographic isolation, and being an immigrant or refugee compounded the risk of violence and abuse, she said.
Most importantly, however, the recent obesity epidemic in China not only bodes ominously for increased risk of chronic disease by virtue of adiposity itself, but also predicts a rising tide of even greater adverse compounding risk from a high-glycemic diet.
