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Lifetime risk

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The risk of developing a disease during ones lifetime or dying of the disease.

The estimated lifetime risk of developing diabetes for individuals born in 2000 in the US is 32.8% for males and 38.5% for females.

Women who inherit mutations of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene are at an 82% lifetime risk of developing breast cancer.

The lifetime risk of dying from prostate cancer is 3.4% for American men.

However, the lifetime risk of death for the entire population is 100%

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