"a lesser risk" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used in a variety of situations when discussing risks or potential dangers. Example 1: "We decided to invest in the stock market, but only in companies with a lesser risk of failing." Example 2: "Although skydiving is an exhilarating activity, it comes with a lesser risk of injury when compared to other extreme sports." Example 3: "The doctor recommended a new medication with a lesser risk of side effects for the patient."
The new DNA variations are common but confer a lesser risk.
But I already feel lighter and looser and at a lesser risk for injury, like I've been to a reformatory for the inflexible.
The primary treatments for prostate cancer have an impotence rate approaching 50percentt, as well as a lesser risk of urinary incontinence.
Both for consuming and producing nations, partial decriminalization of the illegal market could actually make the problem worse, as a lesser risk will encourage consumption.
As a Jan . 17letter writer says, in an accident between a sport utility vehicle and a regular car, the S.U.V.'s passengers have a lesser risk of injury.
Insp Neil Mutch of South Yorkshire police told the BBC: "We attempted to convince runners not to carry on, but decided it was a lesser risk to let them run the race".
What, then, is it about saving a stranger by giving a kidney, a far lesser risk, that people find so odd?
These analyses all show a negative relationship between the length of treatment with conventional DMARDs and the risk of cardiovascular events; that is, longer duration of treatment with, say, methotrexate was associated with a somewhat lesser risk than a shorter duration of treatment with the same agent.
However, for non-invasive breast cancer the incidence is higher for women on raloxifene than tamoxifen, indicating a possible lesser risk reduction benefit for this condition.
In a network meta-analysis of 22 clinical trials, ACE inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers, calcium channel blockers, and placebo were associated with a significantly lesser risk of NOD compared with diuretics (51).
Concerning this cardinal variable, our data show, with enormous consistency across the combinable studies, that RFA has a 63% lesser risk of local recurrence than PEI with a calculated NNT of 9 (95%CI: 6 25).
