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1               Definitions
In this instrument:
                               antithrombotic therapy means taking a drug for the treatment or prophylaxis of a thrombotic event, and includes antiplatelet drugs, anticoagulants and thrombolytic agents.
        Note: Examples of drugs used in antithrombotic therapy include, but are not limited to, aspirin, clopidogrel, tirofiban, warfarin, heparin, dabigatran, apixaban, rivaroxaban and alteplase.
                                MET means a unit of measurement of the level of physical exertion.  1 MET = 3.5 ml of oxygen/kg of body weight per minute, 1.0 kcal/kg of body weight per hour or resting metabolic rate.
                                  MRCA means the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004.
                                pack-year of cigarettes, or the equivalent thereof in other tobacco products means a calculation of consumption where one pack-year of cigarettes equals 20 tailor-made cigarettes per day for a period of one calendar year, or 7 300 cigarettes.  One tailor-made cigarette approximates one gram of tobacco or one gram of cigar or pipe tobacco by weight.  One pack-year of tailor-made cigarettes equates to 7.3 kilograms of smoking tobacco by weight.  Tobacco products mean cigarettes, pipe tobacco or cigars, smoked alone or in any combination.
                                  relevant service means:
         (a)          eligible war service (other than operational service) under the VEA;
         (b)          defence service (other than hazardous service and British nuclear test defence service) under the VEA; or
         (c)          peacetime service under the MRCA.
Note: MRCA and VEA are also defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
                               specified list of drugs means:
         (a)          amphetamine;
         (b)          cocaine;
         (c)          dextroamphetamine;
         (d)          methamphetamine;
         (e)          phenylpropanolamine; or
         (f)           3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy).
                               specified list of inflammatory vascular diseases means:
         (a)          allergic granulomatous angiitis;
         (b)          Behcet disease;
         (c)          giant cell arteritis;
         (d)          granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener granulomatosis);
         (e)          polyarteritis nodosa;
         (f)           rheumatoid arthritis;
         (g)          Sjogren syndrome;
         (h)          systemic lupus erythematosus; or
         (i)            Takayasu arteritis.
                               subarachnoid haemorrhage—see subsection 7(2).
                                  terminal event means the proximate or ultimate cause of death and includes the following:
         (a)           pneumonia;
         (b)           respiratory failure;
         (c)           cardiac arrest;
         (d)           circulatory failure; or
         (e)           cessation of brain function.
                                  VEA means the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986.