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Relative Risk and Attributed Risk

The document discusses relative risk (RR) and attributable risk (AR) in the context of community medicine. RR measures the strength of association between exposure and disease, while AR indicates the excess risk due to exposure. Both metrics are commonly used in cohort studies and are defined with specific formulas for calculation.

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Relative Risk and Attributed Risk

The document discusses relative risk (RR) and attributable risk (AR) in the context of community medicine. RR measures the strength of association between exposure and disease, while AR indicates the excess risk due to exposure. Both metrics are commonly used in cohort studies and are defined with specific formulas for calculation.

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Department of Community Medicine

● Topic : Relative risk and


Attributable risk
● Roll no. : 23117
● Date : 31/1/2026
Relative risk (RR)
● It is the ratio of incidence of diseas among
exposed to incidence of disease among non-
exposed.

● Used to measure strength of association


between exposure and disease.

● Commonly used in cohort study.


Formula
RR = Incidence of disease among exposed
Incidence of disease among non-exposed
Disease
Risk
factor
Yes No = a/a+b
c/c+d
Yes a b
No c d
Interpretation
● 1> RR : Negative association

● RR = 1 : No association

● 1< RR : Positive association


Attributable risk (AR)
● It is the ratio of difference in incidence of
disease between exposed and non-exposed
with the incidence of disease in exposed.

● Indicates excess risk due to exposure.

● Commonly used in cohort study.


Formula
AR =
(incidence among exposed) -
(incidence among non-exposed) × 100

Incidence among exposed Disease


Risk Yes No
factor
= (a/a+b)-(c/c+d) ×100
(a/a+b) Yes a b
No c d
an yo .

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