SACRAMENTO - "Coming to Terms With the Terms of Risk" is a thoughtful consideration of how researchers define terms like risk, risk factors and cause. The authors of the article in the Archives of General Psychiatry, April 1997, are all affiliated with blue-ribbon medical schools and had the support of equally distinguished foundations.They begin by noting that during the past 15 years, the field of risk-factor research has burgeoned. In the interests of clarity, the authors say they define risk as
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