Medicine
- Relative risk, a term used in statistics and epidemiology
- Respiratory rate, a vital sign
- A rhesus factor phenotype
- RR interval (R wave to R wave interval), the inverse of heart rate
- RR, abbreviation for blood pressure measurements taken with a sphygmomanometer invented by Scipione Riva-Rocci (1863–1937)
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