"elevate the risk" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to increase or make the risk higher. Example: The decision to invest in the stock market may elevate the risk of losing money.
Some newer drugs can promote weight gain and thus elevate the risk of diabetes.
At the social level, we know that poverty, isolation, and negative life events all elevate the risk of mental health problems.
"The worst decision we could make is to believe that this could never happen again and to not count on the possibility of additional acts of terrorism and elevate the risk," he said.
Bayer, the German company that makes the drugs, has said that they pose no greater threat than other contraceptive pills, all of which somewhat elevate the risk of stroke and blood clots in the legs and lungs.
Euroscore II predicted operative risk and type of surgery elevate the risk of increased nursing workload.
The inability to quickly recover postural balance could elevate the risk of bleeding.
This study scrutinized several factors assessable in postoperative orthopantomographs which might elevate the risk of osteosynthesis failure.
The imposition of a lens of dogma is seen to elevate the risk of mis-handling and/or mis-characterizing results.
The costs of poor quality processes elevate the risk of erroneous outcomes, an erosion of confidence in the data and the organisations using these data.
The changes were rare in both groups, but they were about 80% more common 0.9% versus 0.5%—in people with the disorders compared with unaffected people, suggesting that the mutations elevate the risk of developing the disorders.
"The search for an oral contraceptive that does not elevate the risk of breast cancer needs to continue," he wrote.
