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"Also, the increase in risk during use (1.24 relative risk) translates differently in a 20-year-old woman versus a 40-year-old woman. If the risk of breast cancer at 20 is 1 in 5,000 (or less), then a relative risk of 1.24 increases it to 1 in 4,000. However, if a woman is 40 and the risk of breast cancer is about 1 in 250, a relative risk of 1.24 increases her risk to 1 in 200. Thus, the increase is clearly more significant in an older woman. In this age group, of 1,000 40-year-old women who take the pill, one will contract breast cancer as a consequence." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Like the Women's Health Study when researchers compared the participants in the highest magnesium intake quintile (20 percent) against those in the lowest quintile, the reduction in relative risk for developing diabetes was slashed 34 percent for women and 33 percent for men. Obviously, the risk of developing diabetes wasn't a 100 percent knock-out punch, so there are other variables involved. But for one, this lone variable—adequate magnesium intake—to be associated with a one-third lowered relative risk for everyone is pretty phenomenal, and so easy to make public policy!" - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"If the risk of breast cancer at 20 is 1 in 5,000 (or less), then a relative risk of 1.24 increases it to 1 in 4,000. However, if a woman is 40 and the risk of breast cancer is about 1 in 250, a relative risk of 1.24 increases her risk to 1 in 200. Thus, the increase is clearly more significant in an older woman. In this age group, of 1,000 40-year-old women who take the pill, one will contract breast cancer as a consequence. Only about 15 percent of breast cancers occur in women younger than age 45,6 which is when most of us take oral contraceptives." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"A total of 51 incident lung cancer cases were observed, and they found a clear decreasing relative risk for lung cancer with increased frequency of consumption of fish and shellfish, but not with intake of dried/salted fish. Decreased relative risk was seen with broiling and boiling cooking methods, but reduction with raw and deep-fried fish consumption was not statistically significant. The scientists concluded that frequent fresh fish consumption, regardless of cooking method, may reduce the risk of lung cancer." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"The bottom line was that there was more than 100 percent increased relative risk of developing diabetes every year in those patients who did not receive education and ongoing support versus those who did. Types of Support External support comes in many forms." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"The relative risk reduction is 31 percent because 1.1 heart attacks per 100 men per year is 31 percent lower than 1.6 heart attacks per 100 men per year. highest-risk men without coronary heart disease, 99 out of every 100 would take Pravachol for two years without any benefit. The problem is that we can't know in advance who the hundredth man is going to be, and for that individual the protection conferred by the statin drug is very important." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "With all the talk about "most promising advance in a long time" and "home runs," readers had few clues that the dramatic-sounding relative risk translated into a minimal absolute risk of about 1 in a 1000. Nonetheless, concern about even this level of risk is not unreasonable. So how much would statin therapy help? An article by the same group of researchers published in JAMA in 2001 showed that a daily dose of 40 mg of Pravachol significantly reduced CRP levels." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"That translates into the much-vaunted 25% reduction in risk, based on "relative risk." This means that the number of patients who died from a heart attack by the end of five years when the study ended was 25% smaller in the statin group than in the placebo group. But that number is misleading. Since the number of people who died from a heart attack was small to begin with, what it actually means is that your own personal risk of dying from a heart attack was reduced by only 0.2% per year, the figure for what is known as "absolute risk." Obviously a 25% reduction sounds a lot better than a 0." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Compared to the lowest level of intake, the relative risk for the highest level of intake were 1.02 (2 percent higher risk) for animal protein, 0.93 (7 percent lower risk) for red meat, and 0.89 (11 percent lower risk) for all meat. Results did not differ by menopausal status or family history of breast cancer. The researchers found no evidence that intake of meat or fish during mid-life and later was associated with risk of breast cancer." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"This review describes a secondary analysis of a large Finnish cohort resulting in an even less compelling relative risk that was not statistically significant. And so butter is now politically correct. It joins seafood and the constituent omega-3 fatty acids as the smart thing to eat. The supporting literature is as voluminous as it is low in quality. For an analysis of the risk/benefit ratio of fish intake, I'd suggest the review by Mozaffarian and Rimm (2006)." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Later calculations showed that the relative risk of acquiring GBS during the six weeks after the vaccination was ten times higher if you had been vaccinated than if you had never received the swine flu vaccine. The cases of GBS that resulted from the swine flu vaccine were no different, in terms of the severity of paralysis and weakness, from those that had emerged in nonvaccinated individuals, except for the fact that those who developed GBS without having been vaccinated were, as in my own case, far more likely to have had an acute illness in the month preceding GBS." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Repeated insulin resistance physiologies, due to additional pregnancies, lead to an increase in the rate of developing Type-2 diabetes later. The relative risk for Type-2 diabetes was 1.95 for each 10 pounds gained during pregnancy. This is also associated with greater risk for developing hypertension, hyper-lipidemia, EKG changes, and mortality.135 Women with gestational diabetes (GDM) had higher triglycerides and fatty acids, beta hydroxy butyrate, and LDL, and lower HDL cholesterol than normals. Their offspring have an increased rate of perinatal mortality and morbidity." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"But for one, this lone variable—adequate magnesium intake—to be associated with a one-third lowered relative risk for everyone is pretty phenomenal, and so easy to make public policy! The exact mechanism of action by which magnesium lowers risk continues to have us stymied. But nonetheless, the fact remains that insulin sensitivity is often improved with simple administration of this easy-to-find mineral, and it assists many diabetics in achieving better glucose control. So why miss a chance to take such an easy step for health protection?" - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Do you want your genetic blueprint to be the central narrative in your life, spelling out the relative risk for all your potential ailments? Is our health-care system prepared to assist individuals in adjusting their lives when they know something about their genetic predisposition to certain diseases?" - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "These estimates vary because the population of people studied to generate our relative risk estimates is small, not representative of the general population, and the equations to calculate risk have fudge factors. We really do not know the full range of our possible error. As you can see, given the enormous range in our risk assessment, the integrity of our estimate breaks down, as does its potential usefulness to you or your loved ones." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"The relative risk (RR) is therefore 8.5 (95% CI, 5.7 to 12.7). After adjusting for greater diagnostic awareness, the RR is 4.7 (95% CI, 3.1 to 7.2). Among individuals less than 15 years old, the adjusted RR is 4.1 (95% CI, 3.5 to 4.9). Longitudinal trends in prevalence data suggest a temporal association between the introduction of MMR vaccine in Denmark and the rise in autism. This contradicts an earlier report." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"In a single large cohort study of 88,795 women, of whom 2956 were diagnosed with breast cancer over a follow-up period of 14 years, those consuming 30-35% energy intake from fat had a relative risk of 1.15 (95% CI 0.73, 1.80) compared to women consuming 20% or less energy intake from fat [113]. In that study, specific types of fat also were not found to be associated with risk of breast cancer, although a small but significant increase in risk was associated with intake of omega-3 fatty acids from fish (RR 1.09, 95% CI 1.03, 1." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"However, if a woman is 40 and the risk of breast cancer is about 1 in 250, a relative risk of 1.24 increases her risk to 1 in 200. Thus, the increase is clearly more significant in an older woman. In this age group, of 1,000 40-year-old women who take the pill, one will contract breast cancer as a consequence. Only about 15 percent of breast cancers occur in women younger than age 45,6 which is when most of us take oral contraceptives." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Another significant study evaluated a pooled analysis from 54 studies involving 53,297 women with breast cancer and over 100,000 controls and concluded that there is a slight but measurable increase in the relative risk of breast cancer for current BCP users that declines shortly after stopping the pill and disappears within 10 years.5 By age 50, there is no difference in the risk of breast cancer in women who have ever used oral contraceptives versus those who have never used them. Also, the increase in risk during use (1." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"There is a suggestion that modest consumption of fish will reduce the relative risk of coronary death by about 30 percent, but it will decrease the absolute risk of death before your time very little and all-cause mortality not at all (see chapter 1). It will not protect you from any manifestation of coronary artery disease other than death. There is no hint of a benefit in terms of cancer. So, there's a whiff of white smoke. Then there's the fear factor, fear of the contaminants in our waters contaminating seafood and threatening our very survival." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"One way is called relative risk; the other way is absolute risk. Here's how it works: let's say that in a trial involving 100 people, two people would normally get breast cancer during the trial duration, but when all 100 people are put on the drug, only one person gets breast cancer, meaning the reduction of breast cancer is one person out of 100. Yet the pharmaceutical industry will exclaim that the relative risk reduction is 50 percent because one is 50 percent of two. In other words, the risk is cut in half from a relative point of view." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"The multivariate relative risk is 1.33. That 33 percent increase is based on a tiny number of nurses whose dietary intake over two decades is at best approximated. This data analysis, coupled with the influence of the Harvard Schools of Medicine and Public Health, has had an enormous impact on margarine sales. Cities and states are banning margarine from restaurants and fast-food chains are removing it from their fryers. And no doubt the plaintiff's bar is lurking to provide a legal remedy for all who were supposedly poisoned by margarine." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "But this study massages the data to the same extent as the fish study above to come up with significant reductions in relative risk. Absolute risk reduction is trivial (Rimm et al. 1996). 4. Fiber is good for women's hearts, we are told. The study (Wolk et al. 1999) is as unconvincing as the study on men. 5. Eggs are exonerated! At least, one egg per day won't hurt you. Many eggs may hurt you if you're a diabetic (Hu et al. 1999). Give me a break. 6." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"More relevant than these large reductions in relative risk in determining the real benefit of treating these very high risk men with Pravachol is the actual number of heart attacks and deaths prevented. This turns out to be a much less impressive number: 100 men in the study had to take Pravachol for two full years in order to prevent a single heart attack.* The cost of treating 100 people for two years with Pravachol 40 mg per day was $336,000 (for the drugs alone). In order to prevent a single death, 100 men in the WOSCOPS study would have had to take Pravachol for five and a half years." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Ask your doctor about the relative risk of preventive aspirin therapy and about dosage?every day or every other day, perhaps. Prevent Stroke Side Effects If you or someone you know suffers from a stroke, there's an emergency medication that may help prevent or minimize resulting disabilities, such as speech impediments and paralysis. Tissue plasminogen activator (TPA), an anticoagulant, is a heart attack treatment that is now also used against strokes that occur as a result of a blood clot in the brain. To be effective, however, TPA must be taken within three hours of a stroke." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Decreased relative risk was seen with broiling and boiling cooking methods, but reduction with raw and deep-fried fish consumption was not statistically significant. The scientists concluded that frequent fresh fish consumption, regardless of cooking method, may reduce the risk of lung cancer. Pancreatic Cancer When researchers tested the effects of polyunsaturated fatty acids on malignant cells, they found all of the PUFAs tested had an inhibitory effect. EPA, found in fish and formed from alpha-linolenic acid in flax, was the most effective." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Sure they have, if you fall for the relative risk gimmick (or just didn't know it was legal to mislead the people this shamelessly). Comparison of Schizophrenia Drugs Often Favors Firm Funding Study Washington Post, Shankar Vedantam, April 12, 2006 In fact, when psychiatrist John Davis analyzed every publicly available trial funded by the pharmaceutical industry pitting five new antipsychotic drugs against one another, nine in 10 showed that the best drug was the one made by the company funding the study." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"The second number (0.2%) doesn't look so great, and that doesn't take into account the risks from statins themselves, which I will get to shortly. What about the evidence for heart-attack prevention if you don't have a prior history of heart disease?" - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"By completing this survey, you'll generate a score that indicates the relative risk of type 2 diabetes. By reading the information in the "Rationale" column, you'll get a quick summary of the scientific data explaining why these variables are important. We will follow up this survey in Chapters 4 and 5 by taking a closer look at the processes that lead to type 2 diabetes and how we can prevent, slow down, and even potentially reverse the process." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.) "In one analysis, the protective effect of whole-grain consumption was lost when the relative risk was adjusted for magnesium intake.17 To provide some general guidelines, Table 4.4 lists various foods and their glycemic index classification. To view the specific values of these foods, see Appendix I on page 328. the glycemic load I One of the shortcomings of the glycemic index is that it tells us only about the quality of the carbohydrates, not the quantity. Obviously, quantity matters too, but the measurement of the glycemic index of a food is not related to portion size." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.)

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