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- Absolute risk reduction [r]: Decrease in risk of a given activity or treatment in relation to a control activity or treatment. [e]
- Anticholesteremic agent [r]: Substance that promote a reduction of blood cholesterol levels. [e]
- Breast cancer [r]: Cancer of the glandular breast tissue. [e]
- Colorectal cancer [r]: Malignancy that arises from the lining of either the colon or the rectum. [e]
- Contrast-induced nephropathy [r]: Acute kidney injury from radiocontrast. [e]
- Digital object identifier [r]: Unique label for a computer readable object that can be found on the internet, usually used in academic journals. [e]
- Epidemiology [r]: The branch of demography that studies patterns of disease in human or animal populations. [e]
- Evidence-based medicine [r]: The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. [e]
- Minnesota Colon Cancer Control Study (PMID 7580661) [r]: Randomized controlled trial of 46,551 participants aged 50 to 80 years in Minnesota, for screening of colorectal cancer using the stool guaiac test. [e]
- Number needed to treat [r]: Epidemiological measure that indicates how many patients would require treatment with a form of medication to reduce the expected number of cases of a defined endpoint by one. [e]
- Randomized controlled trial [r]: "Work consisting of a clinical trial that involves at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such as the use of a random-numbers table." (Anonymous, (2009) Randomized controlled trial (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.) [e]
- Relative risk ratio [r]: Proportion of diseased people amongst those exposed to the relevant risk factor divided by the proportion of diseased people amongst those not exposed to the risk factor. [e]
- Vascular disease [r]: Pathological processes involving any of the blood vessels in the cardiac or peripheral circulation. They include diseases of arteries; veins; and rest of the vasculature system in the body (National Library of Medicine). [e]
