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Health Risk Behaviors

"Health Risk Behaviors" 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.

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Pattern of behavior which predisposes certain individuals to increased risk for contracting disease or sustaining personal injury. These behaviors may cluster into a risky lifestyle.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Risk Behaviors" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Risk Behaviors" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 5 publications over 2 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2020
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