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AGE-ADJUSTED

Specialty Definition: AGE-ADJUSTED

DomainDefinition

Health

Summary measures of rates of morbidity or mortality in a population using statistical procedures to remove the effect of age differences in populations that are being compared. Age is probably the most important and the most common variable in determining the risk of morbidity and mortality. (references)

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

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Photo Album: AGE-ADJUSTED

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Age-adjusted death rates of liver cirrhosis (death registration States, 1910-1932, and United States, 1933-1997. Credit: NIAA.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: AGE-ADJUSTED

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Health

Over the past 25 years, the United States has experienced a steady decline in the age-adjusted death toll from cardiovascular disease (CVD), primarily in mortality caused by coronary heart disease and stroke. (references)

Business

Home help is funded through an age-adjusted budget from the Health Ministry. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: AGE-ADJUSTED

"AGE-ADJUSTED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AGE-ADJUSTED" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: AGE-ADJUSTED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-e-g-j-s-t-u"

-3 letters: adjudges, adjusted, degusted.

-4 letters: adjudge, deadest, gateaus, guested, sauteed, sedated, steaded.

-5 letters: adages, adjust, agates, ajugas, audads, dauted, degust, dusted, egesta, etudes, gasted, gateau, gusted, jested, judged, judges, jugate, justed, sauted, seated, sedate, segued, staged, sueded, teased, teguas.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AGE-ADJUSTED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 47 45 2D 41 44 4A 55 53 54 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000111 01000101 00101101 01000001 01000100 01001010 01010101 01010011 01010100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#71 &#69 &#45 &#65 &#68 &#74 &#85 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0047 0045 002D 0041 0044 004A 0055 0053 0054 0045 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

354139153538445553543938

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INDEX

1. Images: Photo Album
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Usage Frequency
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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