Attendance, risk estimates

The organization for economic co-operation and development (OECD) defines risk assessment as the process intended to calculate or estimate the probability, including the identification of attendant uncertainties, of an adverse effect in an... 

Although surveys such as the Monitoring the Future Survey and the National Youth Tobacco Survey provide the most accurate prevalence estimates available for substance use among adolescents, these surveys are restricted to adolescents attending school and so exclude truants and school dropouts. Because these excluded groups are also at increased risk for substance use, the prevalence rates provided by these surveys very likely underestimate the true prevalence rates. 

Risk characterization is the qualitative and/or quantitative estimation, including attendant uncertainties, of the severity and probability of known and potential adverse effects of a substance in a given population it is based on hazard identification, dose-response assessment and exposure assessment (OECD/IPCS, 2001), as described above. 

Scott CL, Jenkins MA, Southey M, Davis TA, Leary JA, Easton DF, et al. Average age-specific cumulative risk of breast cancer according to type and site of germline mutations in BRCAl and BRCA2 estimated from multiple-case breast cancer families attending Australian family cancer clinics. Hum Genet 2003 112 542-51. 

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In all patients with a potential renal disease or impaired renal function as well as in patients with inflammatory conditions and acidosis, GFR measurements or estimates should be performed and - if below 30 - the indication for contrast-enhanced MR should be reconsidered and discussed on an individual level. Tight collaboration with the attending nephrologists is advisable in patients with increased NSF risk. If (estimated) GFR is between 30 and 60, Gd should be administered with caution. In any case, patients and their parents have to be informed about the potential risk, and an informed consent should be obtained prior to the investigation. 

The issue of safety in recombinant DNA research has existed from the very inception of the technique. A moratorium on certain types of recombinant experiments was proposed (41) as a result of the concerns of scientists attending the 1973 Gordon Research Conference on Nucleic Acids. These concerns centered on the possibility that an artificial recombinant DNA molecule constructed using these techniques could prove to be biologically hazardous. This moratorium was followed by a conference at the Asilomar Conference Center in California in February 1975, attended by about 150 molecular biologists from all over the world, where a consensus on a balance between the estimated risks in recombinant DNA research and the efficacy of various containment techniques was developed. 

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