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VERIFY: The two ways to calculate how much your risk is reduced by getting the COVID vaccines

WASHINGTON — By now we've all heard that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has an efficacy rate of 95%, Moderna of 94%, and Johnson & Johnson about 66%; what you may not have known is that rate's technical ...
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Is Relative Risk Reduction a Useful Measure for Patients or Families Who Must Choose a Method of Treatment?

IN THIS issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Chao et al 1 report the results of a study that examined the impact of using four different risk/benefit measures when communicating survival ...
The Conversation

It’s all relative: how to understand cancer risk

Director, Sansom Institute for Health Research; Chair of Translational Cancer Research, University of South Australia Absolute risk is the risk of developing a cancer over a certain period of time.
Medscape

Absolute CK-MB vs. CK-MB Relative Index for Cardiac Risk Stratification

Nearly 7 million patients present to U.S. emergency departments annually for evaluation of possible acute coronary syndromes (ACSs). Despite hospital admission of the 25% to 30% who have atypical ...
Los Angeles Times

Opinion: What’s the absolute risk of eating bacon?

That sounded big, didn’t it? An 18% greater risk of colorectal cancer from daily consumption of about 2 ounces of processed meat? For many people, what that sounds like is, “Wow, I’ve got an 18% ...