Sickle-cell disease has also been implicated as a risk factor for developing pyomyositis [2 4].
Obesity has been implicated as a risk factor for perioperative and postoperative complications.
The use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) had been implicated as a risk factor for nonunion in spinal fusion.
The homo sapiens nuclear receptor subfamily 4, group A (NR4A2) genetic variation has been implicated as a risk factor for schizophrenia (SZ).
Although knee injury has been implicated as a risk factor for the development of knee osteoarthritis (OA), there is great disparity in the magnitude of quantifiable risk.
Stress has been implicated as a risk factor for hoarding, although past research has relied on cross-sectional and self-report designs.
An inhibited temperament early in life has been implicated as a risk factor for the later development of clinically meaningful anxiety and possibly depression.
Estrogen deprivation has been implicated as a risk factor in Alzheimer's disease (AD) as epidemiological data suggests that estrogen replacement therapy can protect against the onset, and progression of the disease.
In the literature, NTM has been shown as a cause for choroiditis in six eyes, iridocyclitis in one eye, and granulomatous panuveitis in two eyes and treatment with steroids was implicated as a risk factor in 42.9% of the cases [1].
While results have been inconsistent, the Val allele has also been occasionally implicated as a risk factor for schizophrenia [7], [12].
Copy number variation of the SMN gene, responsible for spinal muscular atrophy, has been implicated as a risk factor for sporadic ALS[27].
