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Contribution of causal factors to disease burden: how to interpret attributable fractions

What proportion of the risk in a given population is attributable to a risk factor? The population attributable fraction (PAF) answers this question. “Attributable to” is understood as “due to”, which makes PAFs closely related to the concept of potential impact or potential benefits of reducing the...

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Autor principal: Counil, Emilie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Respiratory Society 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8753648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35035565
http://dx.doi.org/10.1183/20734735.0086-2021