Sentence examples for better measure of risk from inspiring English sources

Another blood test, for a substance called apoB, might have been a better measure of risk than LDL, some doctors say.

Some investors say credit default swap prices -- the cost of insuring debt against default -- are a much better measure of risk than credit ratings.

A better measure of human risk would be to directly assess human exposure by testing for antibodies to all AIV subtypes that could occur in nature.

Recent attention has been paid to the applicability of anthropometric markers to measure abdominal obesity and the waist circumference is consistently identified as a better measure of cardiovascular risk than the body mass index [ 6, 11, 12].

It is possible that group age is a better measure of inbreeding risk than mean relatedness as mean relatedness does not take within-group variance in relatedness into account, which could be important in governing mating decisions.

Increases in body weight during adulthood largely reflect increases in adipose tissue rather than lean mass, so total body fat may be a better measure of the risk for cancer than BMI.

The net reclassification index is 16.9%.>> We have shown that by adjusting percent dense area for age and BMI a better measure of breast cancer risk is obtained.

Strengths of our study include the prospective cohort design and the large, diverse population well characterized for tobacco use and other potential confounders, including data on waist-to-hip ratio, a better measure of lung cancer risk than obesity (26).

In fact, some have suggested that absolute area of density is a better measure of breast cancer risk than percentage density in the Asian population due to their distinct physical proportions [ 33].

As an example, a meta-analysis showed that perceived risk likelihood and severity judgements predict vaccination behavior and that the relationship was stronger with better measures of perceived risk [ 4].

In this population, WHR was a better measure of adiposity-related diabetes risk than BMI or waist circumference.