These pressures are not new, McCarthy said, but players in the soybean market face heightened risk with regard to both credit risk and a potential decline in planted acreage in Brazil when soybeans are planted in five to six months.
©UNICEF/Shehzad Noorani Children with disabilities also face heightened risk of malnutrition, either due to neglect or because some disabilities impede food consumption or nutrient absorption.
It cannot be overstated: Women who are fleeing conflict and persecution face heightened risks of gender-based violence, including sexual assault, early and forced marriage, female genital cutting, trafficking and exploitation.
Refugee and internally displaced women and girls who are fleeing the conflict in Iraq face heightened risks of sexual and gender-based violence in the cramped and unsafe confines of refugee camps, where families share little but "a mattress, some blankets, a water container and one restroom for the whole camp," says Ms. Allami.
Soldiers with hearing loss also faced heightened risk — a strong indicator that they had suffered a head injury.
Such people face a heightened risk of developing new polyps.
This has caused migrants to make lengthy detours, making journeys to ever more remote and perilous routes where they face a heightened risk of robbery, rape, abduction and death.
To examine whether infants reported for maltreatment face a heightened risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and other leading causes of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID).
The current study examined whether mindfulness protects against suicidal desire in the face of heightened risk and adversity by increasing zest for life in a sample of university students.
People who inject drugs (PWID) face a heightened risk of blood-borne viral infections (Snow et al., 2014; Vescio et al., 2008), suicide (Artenie et al., 2015), overdose following release (Winter et al., 2015), and reduced personal well-being (Scott et al., 2017).
Certain youth face a heightened risk of "downward assimilation" -- that is, assimilation into negative, self-defeating features of their communities.
