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Quantifying the health benefits of chronic disease prevention: a fresh approach using cardiovascular disease as an example

Current methods of determining the proportion of people who benefit from a preventive intervention and the years of life gained can underestimate the former and overestimate the latter. We describe how to overcome these errors, using two examples relating to the prevention of myocardial infarction (...

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Autores principales: Wald, Nicholas J., Morris, Joan K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4160564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25063437
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10654-014-9932-1