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Descriptor English: Odds Ratio
Descriptor Spanish: Oportunidad Relativa
Descriptor cociente de probabilidades
Entry term(s) cociente de productos cruzados
cociente de riesgos
odds ratio
oportunidad relativa
oportunidades relativas
posibilidad relativa
posibilidades relativas
razón de diferencia
razón de odds
razón de oportunidades
razón de oposiciones
razón de posibilidades
razón de probabilidades relativas
Scope note: Razón o cociente entre dos probabilidades. El cociente de probabilidad de exposición entre casos y controles es el cociente entre las posibilidades a favor de la exposición en los casos y a favor de la exposición en los controles. El cociente de probabilidad de enfermedad en una cohorte o estudio transversal es la razón de probabilidades a favor de la enfermedad entre los expuestos frente a las probabilidades a favor de la enfermedad entre los no expuestos. El cociente de probabilidad de prevalencia alude a un cociente de probabilidades derivado transversalmente de estudios de casos prevalentes.
Descriptor Portuguese: Razão de Chances
Descriptor French: Odds ratio
Entry term(s): Cross Product Ratio
Cross-Product Ratio
Cross-Product Ratios
Odds Ratios
Odds, Relative
Ratio, Cross-Product
Ratio, Risk
Ratios, Cross-Product
Ratios, Risk
Relative Odds
Risk Ratio
Risk Ratios
Tree number(s): E05.318.740.600.600
G17.680.500
N05.715.360.750.625.590
N06.850.520.830.600.600
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016017
Scope note: The ratio of two odds. The exposure-odds ratio for case control data is the ratio of the odds in favor of exposure among cases to the odds in favor of exposure among noncases. The disease-odds ratio for a cohort or cross section is the ratio of the odds in favor of disease among the exposed to the odds in favor of disease among the unexposed. The prevalence-odds ratio refers to an odds ratio derived cross-sectionally from studies of prevalent cases.
Annotation: usually NIM
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Previous Indexing: Probability (1977-1989)
Risk (1977-1989)
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under PROBABILITY 1990
History Note: 91(90); was see under PROBABILITY 1990
DeCS ID: 24811
Unique ID: D016017
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1989/05/25
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Odds Ratio - Preferred
Concept UI M0024489
Scope note The ratio of two odds. The exposure-odds ratio for case control data is the ratio of the odds in favor of exposure among cases to the odds in favor of exposure among noncases. The disease-odds ratio for a cohort or cross section is the ratio of the odds in favor of disease among the exposed to the odds in favor of disease among the unexposed. The prevalence-odds ratio refers to an odds ratio derived cross-sectionally from studies of prevalent cases.
Preferred term Odds Ratio
Entry term(s) Cross Product Ratio
Cross-Product Ratio
Cross-Product Ratios
Odds Ratios
Odds, Relative
Ratio, Cross-Product
Ratio, Risk
Ratios, Cross-Product
Ratios, Risk
Relative Odds
Risk Ratio
Risk Ratios



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