This equates to an absolute risk of one in 132 for the over-40s and one in 182 for 35-39-year-old women.
The absolute risk of a woman developing breast cancer under the age of 40 is very low, says Dr Kumle.
Although the absolute risk for individuals is low, it is still something doctors and patients should be aware of, say the researchers.
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Statistics expert Professor Patrick Wolfe, from University College London, said the absolute risk of Type-2 diabetes is low at about 4% of the adult UK population.
The absolute risk to any one person is minute, but it translates into tens of thousands of excess cases of pneumonia in this country each year because of the drugs.
At current levels, we believe absolute and relative risk-reward to roughly balanced given these issues.
For some reason, most investors know not to take analyst equity ratings as absolute guarantees of future risk.
And recognizing risk is an absolute prerequisite for controlling it.
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Although the prescription to base your compliance efforts on an assessment of risk is the most basic of common sense axioms, and although it applies generally to your entire compliance program, the Department of Justice has driven the point home and made it clear as well that an anti-corruption risk assessment is an absolute must-do.
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On the other hand, some women will want to keep their risk of complications at an absolute minimum.
In addition to absolute return, there are many meaningful risk metrics that should be considered when evaluating who you should trust with your money.
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It is important to recognize that absolute performance represents only one side of the risk-reward equation.
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Dave emphasizes a flexible management style (known commonly as an Absolute Return strategy) and focuses on a risk managed approach to the markets.
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Because the patients in the study had a relatively low risk of heart attack, the absolute benefit of taking Crestor was still very small.
Though there isn't enough evidence to support absolute rest, mild activities that don't risk a repeat concussion may be part of management of the injury, the group said.
Although the reduced risk of major vascular events in these trials was initially offset by an increased risk of major bleeding, both these effects diminished over time, leaving only the reduced risk of cancer from 3 years and onwards (an absolute reduction of 3 cases per 1000 patients per year, 12 per 1000 control versus 9 per 1000 in aspirin groups).
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Such funds throw around terms like risk parity, equity long-short, market neutral and absolute return.
The AIG mess, then, is the result of denial about the level of risk, arrogance that the triple A credit rating is an absolute safety belt, greed about compensation that leads to reckless behavior and overall, a level of irrationality that approached insanity.
When CEOs demand absolute integrity, it doesn't mean they think they can avoid all risk.
With revenue per server and absolute demand increasing and the ability to lease the facility, management views the risk of stranded capital for the data center is reduced.
Berkley said industry risk models have all but abandoned the once common indicator known as "Absolute Maximum Loss, " preferring to base premiums on the more conservative "Probable Maximum Loss" calculation, which lowers damage estimates by factoring in long odds of catastrophic events.
Ignoring for a second that this comparison completely ignores the vastly different risk profile of these two investments, it also ignores the fact that on an absolute basis, a 2% dividend yield is among the lowest in history and portends very low returns going forward.
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