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The tyranny of the averages and the indiscriminate use of risk factors in public health: The case of coronary heart disease
Modern medicine is overwhelmed by a plethora of both established risk factors and novel biomarkers for diseases. The majority of this information is expressed by probabilistic measures of association such as the odds ratio (OR) obtained by calculating differences in average “risk” between exposed an...
Autores principales: | Merlo, Juan, Mulinari, Shai, Wemrell, Maria, Subramanian, SV, Hedblad, Bo |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5769103/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29349257 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.08.005 |
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