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"heightened the risk" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe something that made a situation riskier. For example, "Driving during a thunderstorm heightened the risk of an accident."
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This pattern only heightened the risk of brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, doctors say.
Optimistic benchmarks actually heightened the risk, because they forced fund managers to overreach.
With Thursday's deal, the Knicks expanded their opportunities and heightened the risk.
This has resulted in heavy traffic jams and heightened the risk of injury and death to pedestrians.
It has found that consuming bacon, ham, hot dogs, salami and some sausages heightened the risk of bowel cancer.
Our over-reliance on increasingly costly fossil fuels has sent bills soaring and heightened the risk of extreme weather battering Britain.
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Indeed, they heightened the risks of conflict for all Western countries.
A tangle of factors heightens the risk for black women.
This heightens the risk of errors in published information".
The proximity heightens the risk as the consequences caused by vessel burst can be more catastrophic than the former condition.
Glucose levels in the blood rise, heightening the risk for diabetes.
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