Sentence examples for risk is weak from inspiring English sources

The epidemiological evidence for an association between radiation exposure and pancreas cancer risk is weak.

Smoking is an established risk factor for kidney cancer, although the increase in risk is weak (IARC, 2004).

32 More generally, evidence for a causal role of autoimmunity in itself on miscarriage risk is weak.

However, the evidence that other reproductive variables, such as breastfeeding, incomplete pregnancies, age at menarche and age at menopause, are associated with risk is weak and inconsistent, and mostly comes from case control studies (Riman et al, 2004).

The association between smoking and risk is weak in comparison to other breast cancer risk factors, and previous investigations (Hamajima et al, 2002) have raised the suggestion that associations between smoking and risk may be due to confounding, in particular, due to alcohol consumption.

Yet, the association between peripheral and abdominal SAT and cardiometabolic risk is weak, if not "paradoxical" (9, 14), and it is still unknown whether absolute or relative amount of abdominal SSAT is responsible for the putative "protective effects" of abdominal SAT reported in some of these studies.

An alternative explanation is that the association between CA frequency and cancer risk is weaker than previously considered.

He said the evidence of a risk was weak and that the F.D.A. would probably take no action.

He got what he wished for: risk limits at Mr Adoboli's ETF desk were increased; punishment for taking excessive risk was weak (Mr Adoboli received only a warning for exceeding risk limits in January 2011).

Nonetheless, the detected association between alcohol intake and BCC risk was weak and there was no evidence of a clear dose response relationship.

In this data set, the association between birth size and breast cancer risk was weak and statistically non-significant (Ekbom et al, 1997).