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How do hazard ratios work?

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PuzzledObserver · 13/05/2020 21:21

@DailyProsecco posted a graphic on the daily numbers thread which gave hazard ratios for various factors, including age, sex and a number of medical conditions.

If you have more than one of those risk factors, do you multiply them together to get your personal risk, or is it not that simple? e.g I have one factor which approximately doubles my risk, and another which is x2.5, so does that mean I'm 5x more likely to die (than a healthy woman in her 50's, which is what the reference is, and what I am)?

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PuzzledObserver · 13/05/2020 21:52

Actually, here’s the actual paper. Can someone help me work what the base risk of dying is?

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v1.full.pdf

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