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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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Revisiting Attributable Risk and Population Attributable Risk: A Clarification of Concepts

National Journal of Community Medicine
Yogeswaran Nehru S
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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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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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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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The Burden of Cardiovascular Disease Attributable to Major Modifiable Risk Factors in Indonesia

Journal of Epidemiology, 2016
Background: In Indonesia, coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke are estimated to cause more than 470 000 deaths annually. In order to inform primary prevention policies, we estimated the sex- and age-specific burden of CHD and stroke attributable to ...
Mohammad Akhtar Hussain
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Population prevalence, attributable risk, and attributable risk percentage for high methylmalonic acid concentrations in the post-folic acid fortification period in the US

Nutrition & Metabolism, 2012
Background Serum methylmalonic acid (MMA) is regarded as a sensitive marker of vitamin B-12 status. Elevated circulating MMA is linked to neurological abnormalities.
Ganji Vijay, Kafai Mohammad R
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