The ratio of the prevalence of a health condition in a group exposed to a particular risk factor to the prevalence of that condition in a group not exposed to the risk factor is called:

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The definition given in the question matches with the definition of relative risk ratio. The relative risk ratio compares the risk of a health condition in an exposed group to the risk of the same condition in a non-exposed group. Therefore, choice D is the best option. The other options, prevalence ratio, incidence-prevalence ratio, and prevalence-incidence ratio, are all different measures of disease frequency, but they do not specifically compare the prevalence of a health condition in a group exposed to a risk factor to the prevalence of the same condition in a group not exposed to that risk factor.

The Ratio of the Prevalence of a Health Condition in a Group