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Figure 5 Absolute risk difference between groups exposed and not exposed to stress
Figure 5 | Absolute risk difference between groups exposed and not exposed to stress. Estimated 5-year risk of incident disease or death by status of stress in stroke-free population10, coronary heart disease (CHD)-free population48, and high-risk population32, and in patients with a history of myocardial infarction (MI)62. The bars illustrate that given the low overall incidence rates, the difference in absolute disease risk between disease-free individuals with and without stress is small. By contrast, high-risk populations and patients with cardiovascular disease have high overall rates of morbidity and mortality, and in these groups, the moderately and strongly increased relative risk associated with stress translates to large differences in absolute risk between those exposed to stress versus those not exposed to stress.
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