excess risk
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excess
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈek.ses/us/ˈek.ses/
extra:
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risk
noun
uk/rɪsk/us/rɪsk/
the possibility of something ...
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(Definition ofexcessandriskfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Their obligations should be made explicit, their training should be different, and they should be compensated for taking on thisexcessrisk.
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A wide range ofexcessriskreduction from 10 percent to 100 percent was used in probabilistic sensitivity analysis.
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Our data indicate that on average theexcessriskof anxiety and depression, if any, 7 years after loss is small.
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The clusters found with the census and eligible population generally tend to be spatially larger and to have smallerexcessriskthan clusters found with either adjustment (results not shown).
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We speculate that the effect of not adjusting is generally to make clusters appear to be larger and with smallerexcessriskthan with appropriate adjustment.
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In women with stroke, mean age 72 years, theexcessriskfor hip fracture was increased by 363% at the time of stroke and remained 23% higher eight years later.
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This study found that there was no observedexcessriskof leukaemia within 2 kilometres of all the transmitter sites looked at as a group.
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Again on page 7, mention is made of studies which "by and large"do not suggest that there is an"excessriskto pregnancy".
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They indicate theexcessriskof cancer of various parts of the body in a number of occupations.
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Theexcessriskof cancer may be nearly fiftyfold among long-term snuff users and there is a high morbidity and mortality rate.
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However, some epidemiologists use attributable risk when referring to theexcessrisk, also called the risk difference or rate difference.
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Second, there is no significantexcessriskof having breast cancer diagnosed 10 or more years after stopping use.
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It is a multiplicative model that estimates anexcessriskper exposure unit.
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And two of the most critical tasks are how to impose greater market discipline onexcessrisktaking and effectively end the doctrine too-big-to-fail.
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Amniotic fluid stem cells are harvested without destroying embryos, although amniocentesis does carry a small procedure-relatedexcessriskof pregnancy loss (estimated at 0.06%).
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The absoluteexcessriskin late pregnancy exposures was 2.9 to 3.5 per 1000 infants.
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Some of the excess risks seem to be related to parental characteristics (age, parity, infertility) and the excess of preterm and multiple birth babies.
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Recent studies have not identified any excess risks to women operators during pregnancy.
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As the relative risk for miners has decreased, so has the ability to detect excess risks among that population.
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