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The phrase "average population risk" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to statistics, epidemiology, or public health when discussing the likelihood of an event occurring in a general population.
Example: "The average population risk of developing heart disease has increased over the past decade due to lifestyle changes."
Alternatives: "typical population risk" or "mean population risk".
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Why would we only communicate the average population risk and omit the personalised risk?
For coeliac disease, for example, deCODEme had an average population risk of 1% – eight times higher than that used by 23andMe and 16 times higher than Navigenics.
Several national guidelines exist for breast cancer screening in women of average population risk.
Each genotype specific odds ratio was then divided by the average population risk at each locus in order to derive an estimate of the genotype specific risk that is relative to the average population risk at each locus.
This cohort spans the continuum of breast cancer risk, with some subjects at lower than average population risk.
The control population had 17% higher GRS while cases had 47.89% higher GRS as compared to the average population risk.
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Multifactorial disease risks are probabilities: they are relative risks and may diverge only slightly from average population risks.
Most published articles contained only descriptions of the average population at risk of CVD, and no study predicted individual CVD risk or identified people at high risk.
"If you are trying to track overall risk, then that's the best way to do it is with an average population at risk," Mr. Anderson said.
However, none of these three studies were considered truly representative of the average population at risk for acquiring MDR-TB.
‡Incidence is reported cases per 100,000 residents per year; population used was average population at risk during a period (US census data for midpoint of each period).
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