However, as they use different measures of disease frequency (odds versus risk), it is important they are not treated as interchangeable Risk refers to the probability of being diseased inCollapsibility Odds Ratios versus Risk Ratios Ask Question Asked 8 years, 11 months ago Active 3 years, 8 months ago Viewed 5k times 7 2 $\begingroup$ It is known that odds ratios enjoy a certain symmetry For example, the oddsOdds ratios (OR) are commonly reported in the medical literature as the measure of association between exposure and outcome However, it is relative risk that people more intuitively understand as a measure of association Relative risk can be directly determined in a cohort study by calculating a r
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