"The principal determinant of risk here," he said, "is how much and whether you smoke".
Cholesterol in high-density lipoproteins was easily the best determinant of risk, but with the correlation reversed: the higher the amount, the lower the risk of heart disease.
HLA-DQ2 is the major determinant of risk, but other minor genes, still to be identified, also are involved.
We have shown that impaired level of health-related quality of life is an important determinant of risk for undernutrition.
But having a single rule of thumb based on age is immediately flawed, because it assumes that age is the only determinant of risk tolerance.
Moreover, age was not a persistent determinant of risk perception, for after perceiving the Natech accident, the older respondents conversely regarded the Natech as a less severe threat.
Although Gonzalez-Guarda's previous work has identified acculturation stress as the most important social determinant of risk behaviors among Latino immigrants, this study will help identify which types of stressors matter most and how.
The promise of human reliability as a principal determinant of risk evaluation success in human-managed systems has since been acknowledged (Boring et al. 2004; Boring and Bye 2008).
The nocturnal light level is an ecological determinant of risk, since it influences the visual ability of predators [5], [42].
