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age-specific rate

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age-specific rate
a rate which specifies the age parameter for the rate.


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Population estimates for 2004-2007 obtained from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs were used to calculate seasonal age-specific rates of influenza-associated hospitalization.
We measure the change in the exposure to the risk of late abortions associated with Texas's law, by evaluating changes in the age-specific rate of second-trimester abortions, defined as the number of abortions performed after 12 weeks gestation per 1,000 women.
Data from a national epidemiologic survey out of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, for example, show that children of a parent with active alcohol dependence initiated use of alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana earlier and at higher age-specific rates than children who did not have an alcohol-dependent parent.
 
 
 
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