Example sentences of "be at [adj] risk " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4.32 Employees must no go unaccompanied into a situation where they are likely to be at personal risk . |
| 2 | This hypothesis is compatible with earlier results and with a study of hypertensive patients with high renin profiles , a condition likely to be associated with increased angiotensin II , who were found to be at higher risk of coronary heart disease than those with low renin profiles . |
| 3 | Women taking atenolol appeared to be at lower risk of lung cancer , but the number of deaths was small and confidence intervals wide . |
| 4 | The brightly-coloured males may be at greater risk than the dowdy females . |
| 5 | Typically , these are long-term , follow-up investigations of the children of known schizophrenics — and therefore chosen because , on purely genetic grounds , they should be at greater risk . |
| 6 | If tamoxifen exerts antioestrogenic effects on bone women receiving long term treatment may be at greater risk of osteoporotic fracture . |
| 7 | Faecal occult blood testing is the only realistic method available today for periodic screening of people deemed to be at average risk of colorectal cancer . |
| 8 | The ACE/ID polymorphism seems to be a potent risk factor of coronary heart disease in subjects formerly considered to be at low risk according to common criteria . |
| 9 | As the influence of the DD genotype seemed to be independent of classical risk factors , we considered that it might be particularly important in myocardial infarction patients considered to be at low risk according to the usual criteria . |
| 10 | In conclusion , the ACE/DD genotype is a new potent risk factor for myocardial infarction in middle-aged men , particularly in subjects normally considered to be at low risk . |
| 11 | I mean in n things like swimming baths are chlorinated so they 've got a low bug count anyway , so , so you 'll be at low risk of getting anything there . |
| 12 | Until recently women have been considered to be at low risk from HIV and AIDS , and attention has been focussed on so-called high risk groups . |
| 13 | It is thought that form of insulin may not always give vital warnings of low blood sugar , such as hunger or sweating , and that patients may be at increased risk of slipping unawares into a coma . |
| 14 | There is increasing evidence that the age range 10 to 19 may be the crucial age for exposure , though younger children may also be at increased risk . |
| 15 | So well known was the latter that the Department of Health and Social Security lists the elderly among patients ‘ who may be at increased risk ’ . |
| 16 | Distressed ventilated babies are more likely to breathe asynchronously , increasing the risk of pneumothoraces , so their oxygen requirement will probably be higher and they may be at increased risk of intracranial haemorrhage . |
| 17 | These results suggest that the children of fathers who had been monitored for exposure to external penetrating ionising radiation in the nuclear industry may be at increased risk of developing leukaemia before their fifth birthday . |
| 18 | Although the incidence of gastric cancer is falling in all countries for which reliable data are available there are still certain groups of subjects believed to be at increased risk of developing this disease . |
| 19 | Drug users say they could be at increased risk from AIDS after a decision to stop giving them free clean syringes . |
| 20 | Although psychiatric inpatient care , either in a psychiatric hospital or in a psychiatric unit in the general hospital , is only necessary for a small proportion of attempted suicide patients ( see Table 10 ) , this group is particularly important because it includes the patients likely to be at greatest risk of subsequent suicide and some who pose particularly difficult management problems . |
| 21 | As each of the three variables seemed to be related to risk of relapse , it followed that those living in high contact with high EE relatives and failing to maintain prophylactic medication should be at greatest risk of relapse , while those living with low EE relatives and continuing to take their medication should have the lowest risk . |
| 22 | These are the children of Upton Upon Severn in Worcestershire — children who , parents say , will be at grave risk if the plans go ahead . |
| 23 | If a prisoner disobeys an instruction to place his laundry in a certain basket , he will be at some risk of being found guilty of mutiny under the Bill . |
| 24 | The Maldives was judged to be at particular risk due to its composition of low-lying coral islands and atolls . |
| 25 | The case for such objective assessment before operation seems particularly strong in women over the age of 50 because they may have suffered occult damage to the anal sphincter during the childbirth and could be at particular risk of a poor functional outcome if the sphincter were to sustain further damage at the time of operation . |
| 26 | His research on bereavement has led him to formulate a list of factors which make it possible to identify those likely to be at particular risk for psychiatric disorder . |
| 27 | I warned him that unless he adhered strictly to the regimen I prescribed he would be at considerable risk . ’ |
| 28 | In the section of the article entitled ‘ Managing inoculation incidents in theatre ’ the authors seem to discourage surgeons from reporting ‘ minor sharps injuries , without bleeding , ’ or injuries involving a patient not deemed to be at high risk . |
| 29 | Furthermore , disadvantaged groups , both within our society and in developing countries , have been shown to be at high risk from gestational diabetes . |
| 30 | Sixteen children thought to be at high risk had a further individual assessment . |