"Risk-Taking" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Undertaking a task involving a challenge for achievement or a desirable goal in which there is a lack of certainty or a fear of failure. It may also include the exhibiting of certain behaviors whose outcomes may present a risk to the individual or to those associated with him or her.
| Descriptor ID |
D012309
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.722
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| Concept/Terms |
Risk Behavior- Risk Behavior
- Behavior, Risk
- Behaviors, Risk
- Risk Behaviors
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Risk-Taking".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Risk-Taking".
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2001 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2008 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2009 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2011 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2012 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2013 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2014 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2015 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2016 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2017 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2018 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2020 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2021 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Risk-Taking" by people in Profiles.
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Trends in youth risk behaviours and firearm injury in the USA over 20 years. Inj Prev. 2025 05 20; 31(3):236-241.
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Substance Use Classes Among YMSM in an HIV Digital Health Intervention Program: Implications for Acceptability, Engagement, and Health Outcomes. AIDS Behav. 2025 May; 29(5):1479-1491.
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Modes of HIV transmission among young women and their sexual partners in Ukraine. PLoS One. 2024; 19(6):e0305072.
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Police Harassment and Psychiatric, Sexual, and Substance Use Risk Among Black Sexual Minority Men and Black Transgender Women in the HIV Prevention Trials 061 Cohort. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2025 Apr; 12(2):692-702.
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Rural-Urban Differences in HIV Sexual Risk Behaviors and HIV Service Utilization Among Adolescent Sexual Minority Males in the United States. Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Jul; 53(7):2765-2775.
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Age Differences in the Associations Between Incarceration and Subsequent Substance Use, Sexual Risk-Taking, and Incident STI Among Black Sexual Minority Men and Black Transgender Women in the HIV Prevention Trials 061 Cohort. Am J Mens Health. 2023 Nov-Dec; 17(6):15579883231204120.
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Psychosocial stressors and current e-cigarette use in the youth risk behavior survey. BMC Public Health. 2023 06 06; 23(1):1080.
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Incarceration and Sexual Risk Behavior and Incident Sexually Transmitted Infection/HIV in HIV Prevention Trials Network 061: Differences by Study City and Among Black Sexual Minority Men Who Have Sex With Men, Black Sexual Minority Men Who Have Sex With Men and Women, and Black Transgender Women. Sex Transm Dis. 2022 04 01; 49(4):284-296.
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People who inject drugs in metropolitan Chicago: A meta-analysis of data from 1997-2017 to inform interventions and computational modeling toward hepatitis C microelimination. PLoS One. 2022; 17(1):e0248850.
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Cannabis vaping among adults in the United States: Prevalence, trends, and association with high-risk behaviors and adverse respiratory conditions. Prev Med. 2021 12; 153:106800.