ABSOLUTE RISK

  

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ABSOLUTE RISK

Specialty Definition: ABSOLUTE RISK

DomainDefinition

Health

The observed or calculated probability of an event in a population under study, as contrasted with the relative risk. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ABSOLUTE RISK

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

However, although the absolute risk remains very small, certain children who have febrile seizures face an increased risk of developing epilepsy. (references)

For people without hypertension, the absolute risk of stroke increases over time until around the age of 90, when the absolute risk becomes the same as that for people with hypertension. (references)

The surgery reduced the chances of having a stroke from about 1 in 4 to about 1 in 10, with a 65% relative risk reduction and a 17% absolute risk reduction of death or stroke over the 2 years following the surgery. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ABSOLUTE RISK

Language Translations for "ABSOLUTE RISK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

absoluut risico. (various references)

   

French

  

risque absolu. (various references)

   

German

  

absolutes Risiko. (various references)

   

Italian

  

rischio assoluto. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

absoluteay iskray

   

Portuguese

  

risco absoluto. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ABSOLUTE RISK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-k-l-o-r-s-s-t-u"

-2 letters: brutalises.

-3 letters: absoluter, absolutes, balusters, baulkiest, blousiest, breakouts, brutalise, keratosis, kilobases, laborites, outbreaks, outraises, railbuses, saboteurs, sautoires, storables, strobilae, strobiles, strobilus, subsoiler, troiluses, turkoises.

-4 letters: absolute, abstruse, airbuses, asterisk, astilbes, bailouts, balkiest, baluster, barkiest, barkless, bastiles, baulkier, blasters, blastier, blasties, blisters, bloaters, blousier, blusters, boasters, boatlike, bolsters, borstals, boskiest, brakiest, breakout, briskest, briskets.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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