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Managing risk in statistics - "Attributable Risk"

South African Family Practice, 2003
No abstract available.
Gboyegu A. Ogunbanjo, Daaid N. Durrheim
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Attributable risk of suicide for populations in Australia [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
ObjectiveEach year approximately 3,000 Australians die by suicide. We estimated the population attributable risk for identified target populations to provide evidence on how much of the overall burden of suicide in the Australian population is ...
Piumee Bandara, Andrew Page, Lennart Reifels, Karolina Krysinska, Karl Andriessen, Marisa Schlichthorst, Anna Flego, Long Khanh-Dao Le, Cathrine Mihalopoulos, Cathrine Mihalopoulos, Jane Pirkis   +10 more
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Smoking Attributable Risk in Multiple Sclerosis [PDF]

Frontiers in Immunology, 2022
Tobacco smoke is an important modifiable environmental risk factor for multiple sclerosis (MS) risk. The population attributable fraction (AF) of MS due to smoking can be used to assess the contribution of smoking to the risk of MS development.
Ali Manouchehrinia, Jesse Huang, Jan Hillert, Lars Alfredsson, Tomas Olsson, Ingrid Kockum, Cris S. Constantinescu, Cris S. Constantinescu   +7 more
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The Effect of Apparent Temperature on All-Cause Mortality in England, UK

Environmental Sciences Proceedings, 2023
This work explores the impact of thermal stress on natural-cause mortality in the nine Office of National Statistics regions of England using the thermal index Apparent Temperature as the exposure indicator.
Kyriaki Psistaki, Anastasia K. Paschalidou   +1 more
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The Attributable Risk of Smoking on All-Cause Mortality in Korean: A Study Using KNHANES IV–VI (2007–2015) with Mortality Data [PDF]

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, 2020
Background It is not evident that the attributable risk of smoking on mortality in Korea has decreased. We investigated the impact of smoking on all-cause mortality and estimated the attributable risk of smoking in Korean adults.
Young Sik Park, Sangshin Park, Chang-Hoon Lee   +2 more
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Are high school girls’ lacrosse players at increased risk of concussion because they are not allowed to wear the same helmet boys’ lacrosse players are required to wear?

Injury Epidemiology, 2020
Background Boys’ lacrosse (LAX), a full contact sport allowing body and stick checking, mandates hard shell helmets with full face masks. Girls’ LAX, which prohibits body checking and whose sphere rule is supposed to prevent stick checking to the head ...
R. Dawn Comstock, Alan T. Arakkal, Lauren A. Pierpoint, Sarah K. Fields   +3 more
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How often is occult atrial fibrillation in cryptogenic stroke causal vs. incidental? A meta-analysis

Frontiers in Neurology, 2023
IntroductionLong-term cardiac monitoring studies have unveiled low-burden, occult atrial fibrillation (AF) in some patients with otherwise cryptogenic stroke (CS), but occult AF is also found in some individuals without a stroke history and in patients ...
Napasri Chaisinanunkul, Shaan Khurshid, Brian H. Buck, Alejandro A. Rabinstein, Christopher D. Anderson, Michael D. Hill, Jennifer E. Fugate, Jeffrey L. Saver   +7 more
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Development of risk scoring scale tool for prediction of preterm birth

Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2019
Background: Prediction of preterm births in the early stage during pregnancy may reduce prevalence of preterm births by appropriate interventions. Aims/Objective: The aim of the study is to develop an antenatal risk scoring system/scale for prediction of
Avinash Hindurao Salunkhe, Jyoti A Salunkhe, Vaishali R Mohite, Ujawala More, Asha K Pratinidhi, Satish V Kakade   +5 more
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Estimating Attributable Mortality of Modifying Selected Risk Factors of Myocardial Infarction [PDF]

Novelty in Clinical Medicine, 2022
Background: Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death due to non-communicable diseases and myocardial infarction (MI) is one of the most common causes of death due to cardiovascular diseases worldwide.Objectives: The aim of this study was to
Taher Ahangari, Kamran Ebrahimi, Shaker Salari Lak   +2 more
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Antenatal risk scoring scale for predication of low birth weight and its validity

Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2019
Background: Prediction of low birth weight (LBW) early during pregnancy may prevent LBW by appropriate interventions. Aims/Objective: The aim of the study is to develop an antenatal risk scoring scale for prediction of LBW.
Avinash Hindurao Salunkhe, Asha K Pratinidhi, Jyoti A Salunkhe, Satish V Kakade, Vaishali R Mohite, R P Patange   +5 more
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