In medicine, risk is defined several ways: relative vs. absolute, for example. In short, increased risk is the probability of an outcome in an affected group compared to the probability of an outcome in an unaffected (control) group. You can read more here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK63647.
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