In epidemiology,<unk>  <unk>  – or sometimes more accurately<unk><unk>  risk – is the proportion of people diagnosed with a certain disease, who end up dying of it. Unlike a disease's mortality rate, the<unk>  does not take into account the time period between disease onset and death. A<unk>  is generally expressed as a percentage. It represents a measure of disease lethality and may change with different treatments.<unk> s are most often used for with discrete, limited-time courses, such as acute infections.
Case fatality rate
Mortality rate
Risk of mortality
Infection rate
Apparent infection rate
Epidemic curve
Survival rate
Risk factor