At current levels, we believe absolute and relative risk-reward to roughly balanced given these issues.
Other drugs that have been recalled for heart problems have had far higher relative risk.
Is there any attempt to rate power generation projects by relative risk to humans, species, or the environment?
Conversely, the lonely are better off ramping up their protection against bacterial infection, which is a bigger relative risk to them.
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For those who had worked night shifts for more than 30 years the relative risk of breast cancer went up by 36%.
Recent quitters who had stopped smoking for up to four years experienced almost the same benefit with a 53% lower relative risk.
The strongest data, from prospective cohort studies, is a relative risk of 1.26 for consuming a soda a day and developing diabetes.
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Men who consumed six or more cups per day had a lower adjusted relative risk for overall prostate cancer compared with nondrinkers.
Compared to women who never smoked, the risk of SCD was significantly elevated in current smokers (relative risk 2.44) and former smokers (RR 1.40).
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More striking was the phenomenon's sensitivity to timing: sons conceived at the height of the famine (March-April 1945) showed the highest relative risk of schizophrenia.
It emphasizes conventionality, consistency, community and relative risk aversion.
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Also, the study shows that people who live in neighborhoods with a mix of shops and businesses within easy walking distance are 7% less likely to be obese, which means that their relative risk of obesity is 35% less.
One trial, done in Europe, found that screening and aggressive treatment reduced relative risk of death by 20 percent, but it also found that 48 men had to be diagnosed and treated to save one life about 10 years later.
Alternative indexes have higher risk than market-based indexes and therefore provide a different return path relative to the risk.
So, we position stocks in our portfolio based on how much upside we see relative to their risk.
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The semiconductor and equipment industry normally trades at a premium to the market, when measured in terms of the relative valuation of risk-adjusted EVA performance.
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"The industry learned it had a pricing issue, " Puccia said, explaining that many companies don't charge enough relative to the risk they're now taking on in some areas.
Since the new Europe-wide rule to strengthen banks is that they must - by the middle of 2012 - have a minimum of 9% capital on a Basel 2.5 basis relative to their risk-weighted assets, after allowing for the fall in the price of their holdings of the debts of over-indebted eurozone countries, by definition it is the banks in those over-indebted eurozone countries that emerge as weakest.
They do not want to risk the relative performance rank they achieved on the downside.
University of Ottawa researcher Ruth McPherson, who led the rival team, says all risk is relative.
Risk awareness relative to the reference index has become paramount among fixed income players and arguably a source of alpha in and of itself.
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Conceptually, one can think of the final PRVit score as a ranking based on the ratio of intrinsic value (calculated from performance and risk) relative to current market value.
What you get back from the scan is a report showing the risk you run, relative to the average, of contracting the various conditions tracked.
While bond funds will help you reduce risk in your portfolio relative to the risks in stocks while you wait out the arrival of a future date, you only get your money back when you decide to sell.
But having a family history of breast or ovarian cancer can significantly increase the risk of developing breast cancer and at a younger age, although most women with a relative with breast cancer are not at a substantially increased risk themselves.
Even having a family history of breast cancer in a first degree relative carries about a twofold increase in risk.
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There is thus a risk that price stability may make relative wages even more rigid.
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Better to hang together than to risk a serious loss of reputation relative to competitors by going out on a limb and being wrong.
Another study published this week suggests that the more a woman earns relative to her partner, the greater the risk of a family breaking up, whereas higher male earnings increase the chances of its survival.
"The risk factors include the dimensions of the structure, its location and its location relative to other buildings around it, " explains Matthew Waldrum from Omega Red Group, who assesses the risk of lightning hitting buildings.
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