Only 27percentt judged the risks of nuclear energy to be the most worrying, compared with 50percentt who thought global warming was the predominant risk.
These results support the hypothesis that age is the predominant risk factor for coronary calcification.
In Japan, advanced age, rather than obesity, is still the predominant risk factor for developing type III/IV hiatal hernia [9].
"The predominant risk is that central banks will find themselves behind the curve, exiting too late or too slowly," it added.
About 90% of these infected people live in the Russian Federation and the Ukraine, and injecting drug users remain the predominant risk group, but the virus increasingly is spreading from them to their sexual partners.
Chronic infection with hepatitis B virus is the predominant risk factor for HCC in Southeast Asia and Africa, while chronic infection with hepatitis C virus is the predominant risk factor for HCC in Western countries and Japan.
In 2008, 72% of MSM (the predominant risk group in San Francisco) received an HIV test in the past 12 months compared to 65% in 2004, with over half (53%) testing in the past 6 months in 2008 (local unpublished data from one of the co-authors, McFarland).
HIV infection was the predominant risk factor for TB diagnosis, with TB incidence 3.5 times higher in HIV-positive participants (incidence 311.6 per 1000 person years, 95% CI: 266.7 to 364.9) compared to HIV-negative participants (incidence 81.8 per 1000 person-years, 95% CI: 58.3 to 118.2).
Osteoporosis is the predominant risk factor.
Diabetes and hypertension are the predominant risk factors for chronic kidney disease (CKD) globally.
Yet, the predominant risk factor for AKI continues to be the use of CPB [ 5, 6].
