The major predictors of risk are young age at the time of radiation exposure and the radiation dose.

"Chief executive confidence is quite high now, and it is a major predictor of deals getting done."

Abnormal kidney function, for example, is a major predictor of death among women with heart failure.

The authors of the study concluded that abnormal kidney function, even when mild, was a major predictor of death among women with heart failure.

A major predictor of successful use of cochlear implants is the age at which the recipient became deaf.

Diabetes is a major predictor of how well patients fare with atherosclerosis and heart disease.

Doug Drotman, a vice president at the National Media Group, a Manhattan sports marketing business, said that his own studies suggested that geography was a major predictor of team allegiance.

The major predictor of that belief, the researchers found, was race.

In women with stress urinary incontinence, white race was a major predictor of risk; when compared with blacks, white women had an almost threefold greater risk.

The major predictors of mortality are the severity of mitral regurgitation and the ejection fraction.