The phrase "acquired risk" is not commonly used in written English and may not convey a clear meaning.
It could be used in contexts discussing risks that have been obtained or assumed, but it may require additional clarification.
Example: "Investors should be aware of the acquired risk associated with their portfolio choices."
Alternatives: "assumed risk" or "inherent risk".
In the process of gaining responsibility, Holyrood has also acquired risk.
In a note to clients, the Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Ronny Gal calculated that Elan had severely overpaid for the drugs, stating that it was "tough to see how the assets acquired, risk discounted, would command such a value".
Different acquired risk factors as smoking or overweightness are identified.
Other inherited and acquired risk factors were similarly distributed among cases and controls.
Hereditary and acquired risk factors increase the risk for thrombosis among pregnant women.
Objective: To establish the prevalence of inherited and acquired risk factors for development of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in pregnancy and the puerperium.
Understanding the genetic contributions to ischemic stroke is important not only so as to explain, or predict, the minority of cases that occur in the absence of well-established risk factors, such as smoking, hypertension and diabetes [2], but also to account for wide variability of stroke incidence within individuals who do harbour these common, acquired risk-factors [3].
At present, recognized acquired risks for AD include traumatic brain injury, hypercholesterolemia, obesity, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes.
These authors argue from a public health point of view that acquired risks or exposures are associated with an increased likelihood that a disease will develop later.
Psychosocial research has explored women's knowledge of personal risk before and after genetic counselling, and has begun to determine the emotional costs and benefits of acquiring risk information.
The classification has recently changed and includes genetic and acquired VTE risk factors [ 8].
