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What’s the Risk: Differentiating Risk Ratios, Odds Ratios, and Hazard Ratios?

Cureus, 2020
Risk ratios, odds ratios, and hazard ratios are three common, but often misused, statistical measures in clinical research. In this paper, the authors dissect what each of these terms define, and provide examples from the medical literature to illustrate
A. George, T. Stead, L. Ganti
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Releasing Microdata: Disclosure Risk Estimation, Data Masking and Assessing Utility

The Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 2010
Statistical Agencies need to make informed decisions when releasing sample microdata from social surveys with respect to the level of protection required in the data and the mode of access.
Natalie Shlomo
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Machine Learning Framework to Identify Individuals at Risk of Rapid Progression of Coronary Atherosclerosis: From the PARADIGM Registry. [PDF]

, 2020
Background Rapid coronary plaque progression (RPP) is associated with incident cardiovascular events. To date, no method exists for the identification of individuals at risk of RPP at a single point in time.
Al'Aref, Subhi J, Andreini, Daniele, Baskaran, Lohendran, Bax, Jeroen J, Berman, Daniel S, Budoff, Matthew J, Cademartiri, Filippo, Chang, Hyuk-Jae, Chinnaiyan, Kavitha, Choi, Jung Hyun, Chun, Eun Ju, Conte, Edoardo, de Araújo Gonçalves, Pedro, Gottlieb, Ilan, Gransar, Heidi, Hadamitzky, Martin, Han, Donghee, Kim, Yong-Jin, Kolli, Kranthi K, Lee, Byoung Kwon, Lee, Sang-Eun, Leipsic, Jonathon A, Lin, Fay Y, Maffei, Erica, Marques, Hugo, Min, James K, Narula, Jagat, Pontone, Gianluca, Raff, Gilbert L, Samady, Habib, Shaw, Leslee J, Shin, Sangshoon, Stone, Peter, Sung, Ji Min, van Rosendael, Alexander R, Virmani, Renu   +35 more
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A novel approach to simulate gene-environment interactions in complex diseases [PDF]

, 2009
Background: Complex diseases are multifactorial traits caused by both genetic and environmental factors. They represent the major part of human diseases and include those with largest prevalence and mortality (cancer, heart disease, obesity, etc ...
A Carvajal-Rodriguez, B Peng, C Li, Consortium TWTCC, D Gasbarra, Daniel D'Andrea, DE Weeks, DJ Hunter, DW Hosmer, Gennaro Miele, Giancarlo Raiconi, Group TGCR, J Haldane, J Hoh, J Ott, JD Terwilliger, KE Lohmueller, LM Ploughman, LW Hahn, M Boehnke, M Garcia-Closas, M Schmidt, Mario Nicodemi, MD Ritchie, Michele Pinelli, MJ Khoury, NM Laird, Roberto Amato, Sergio Cocozza, SM Leal, WJ Gauderman, Y Murase   +31 more
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Optimal strategies for monitoring lipid levels in patients at risk or with cardiovascular disease: a systematic review with statistical and cost-effectiveness modelling.

Health Technology Assessment, 2015
BACKGROUND Various lipid measurements in monitoring/screening programmes can be used, alone or in cardiovascular risk scores, to guide treatment for prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD).
R. Perera, E. McFadden, J. Mclellan, Tom W. C. Lung, P. Clarke, Teresa Pérez, T. Fanshawe, A. Dalton, A. Farmer, P. Glasziou, O. Takahashi, John Stevens, L. Irwig, J. Hirst, S. Stevens, Asuka Leslie, S. Ohde, G. Deshpande, K. Urayama, B. Shine, R. Stevens   +20 more
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Validation of prediction models in the presence of competing risks: a guide through modern methods

British medical journal, 2022
Thorough validation is pivotal for any prediction model before it can be advocated for use in medical practice. For time-to-event outcomes such as breast cancer recurrence, death from other causes is a competing risk.
N. van Geloven, D. Giardiello, E. Bonneville, Lucy Teece, Chava L. Ramspek, M. van Smeden, K. Snell, B. Van calster, Maja Pohar-Perme, R. Riley, H. Putter, E. Steyerberg   +11 more
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ELEMENTS OF ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE AND THEIR IMPACT ON ROAD SAFETY

International Journal of Advanced Studies, 2022
In this article, the authors consider the issues of road infrastructure and their impact on road safety. The road network affects the risk of road accidents because it determines how road users perceive the environment.
Tatyana V. Konovalova, Sofiya L. Nadiryan, Alexander A. Izyumsky, Sofiya V. Kotsurba   +3 more
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Barriers to uptake among high-risk individuals declining participation in lung cancer screening: a mixed methods analysis of the UK Lung Cancer Screening (UKLS) trial

BMJ Open, 2015
Objective The current study aimed to identify the barriers to participation among high-risk individuals in the UK Lung Cancer Screening (UKLS) pilot trial. Setting The UKLS pilot trial is a randomised controlled trial of low-dose CT (LDCT) screening that
N. Ali, K. Lifford, B. Carter, F. McRonald, G. Yadegarfar, D. Baldwin, D. Weller, D. Hansell, S. Duffy, J. Field, K. Brain   +10 more
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ASSESSMENT OF RISKS ARISING FROM THE USE OF MULTIPLIER TECHNOLOGY TO ASSESS THE SHARES

Финансы: теория и практика, 2018
On the example of oil and gas companies, the author considers the problem of using the method of market multipliers in assessing the value of companies in the Russian Federation.
V. B. Minasyan
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Data for a population based cohort study on abnormal findings of electrocardiograms (ECG), recorded during follow-up periodic examinations, and their association with long-term cardiovascular morbidity and all-cause mortality

Data in Brief, 2019
In this Data in Brief article, we provide data of the cohort and statistical methods of the research- “Incidental abnormal ECG findings and long-term cardiovascular morbidity and all-cause mortality: a population based prospective study” (Goldman et al.,
Adam Goldman, Hanoch Hod, Angela Chetrit, Rachel Dankner   +3 more
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