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Originally Posted by Anne4tos View Post
Morbidity and mortality are different.

If I understand morbidity correctly, the rate I've been quoted by Vascular Surgeons and TOS specialists is 50%. Obviously, many factors go into increasing or decreasing this rate, but it's an average.

I got them confused

[Definition:
Morbidity refers to the state of being diseased or unhealthy within a population.
Mortality is the term used for the number of people who died within a population]
http://www.diffen.com/difference/Morbidity_vs_Mortality
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