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Appropriating Risk Factors: The Reception of an American Approach to Chronic Disease in the two German States, c. 1950–1990

Risk factors have become a dominant approach to the aetiology of chronic disease worldwide. The concept emerged in the new field of chronic disease epidemiology in the United States in the 1950s, around near-iconic projects such as the Framingham Heart Study. In this article I examine how chronic di...

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Autor principal: Timmermann, Carsten
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3279052/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkr051