relative risk or risk ratio (RR) is the ratio of the probability of an event occurring (for example, developing a disease, being injured) in an exposed group to the probability of the event occurring in a comparison, non-exposed group. Relative risk includes two important features: (i) a comparison of risk between two "exposures" puts risks in context, and (ii) "exposure" is ensured by having proper denominators for each group representing the exposure [1][2] Risk Disease status Present Absent Smoker Non-smoker Consider an example where the probability of developing lung cancer among smokers was 20% and among non-smokers 1%. This situation is expressed in the 2 × 2 table to the right. Here, a = 20, b = 80, c = 1, and d = 99. Then the relative risk of cancer associated with smoking would be Smokers would be twenty times as likely as non-smok please note the first group's RR=1
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