Studies that assess a large number of the risk factors for violent abuse or neglect — as a study at Columbia University did in 1998 — consistently find that the presence of a stepfather isn't a significant marker of risk.
The results indicate that increased EEG beta power can be considered as a likely marker of risk for developing alcoholism and may be used as a predictive endophenotype.
This amplitude difference indicates impaired prosodic processing of word stress during early development and may thus be taken as an early marker of risk for SLI.
The measurement and detection of viremia and antigenemia in sera have been used as a marker of risk for dengue disease severity and diagnosis.
Activity of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis (measured via cortisol reactivity) may be a biological marker of risk for depression and anxiety, possibly even early in development.
From what we do know, frailty and its low cognitive reserve seem to be a clinically useful marker of risk for cognitive decline after cancer and its treatments.
The researchers said more work is needed to confirm if poor oral health directly causes heart disease or is a marker of risk.
This trial is unique because the cancer diagnosis is used not only as a marker of risk for functional decline, but also as a "teachable moment" — an opportune time when elders may be more receptive to making beneficial lifestyle changes.
Excess body fat distributed in the lower extremities, as often prevails in premenopausal women, is also not a marker of risk.
For example, the European Society of Cardiology said that "there is overwhelming evidence that coronary calcification represents a strong marker of risk for future cardiovascular events in asymptomatic individuals and have prognostic power above and beyond traditional risk factors".
Since similar vagal disorders were observed recently by us in SIDS, muscarinic receptor overexpression could become a marker of risk of vasovagal syncopes and SIDS.
