Risk Factor: Something that increases the likelihood of cancer.
Risk Management: Decisions about whether an assessed risk is sufficiently high to present a public health concern and about the appropriate means for control of a risk judged to ...
Risk Factor - Characteristics (i.e., race, sex, age, obesity) or variables (i.e., smoking, occupational exposure level) associated with increased probability of a toxic effect.
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risk factor Physical characteristic (e.g., race, sex, age, obesity) or variable (e.g., smoking, occupational exposure level) associated with increased probability of a toxic effect.
Case control study A study in which people with a disease (cases) are compared to people without the disease (controls) to see if their past exposures to chemicals or other risk factors were different.
compounding uncertainty = it is well known that risk is calculated by the multiplication of risk factors; as risk factors increase this can sometimes result in the compounding of impacts, ...
"Light at night is now clearly a risk factor for breast cancer," says David Blask, a researcher at the Cooperstown, New York-based Mary Imogene Bassett Research Institute.
In a case control study, value obtained by dividing the rate at which persons in the case group are exposed to a risk factor (or to a protective factor) by the rate at which persons in the control group are exposed to the risk factor (or to the ...
Risk management - The process of deciding how and to what extent to reduce or eliminate risk factors by considering the risk assessment, engineering factors (Can procedures or equipment do the job, for how long and how well?), social, ...
A study that compares exposures of people who have a disease or condition (cases) with people who do not have the disease or condition (controls). Exposures that are more common among the cases may be considered as possible risk factors for the ...
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