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the amount or proportion of incidence of disease or death (or risk of disease or death) in individuals exposed to a specific risk factor that can be attributed to exposure to that factor; the difference in the risk for unexposed versus exposed individuals. The term is sometimes incorrectly used to denote population attributable r.
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These are some of the more common measures of association (MA). A MA is any mathematical measure that is used to quantify the association between two or more variables; thus, it is a measure of the extent to which variables X and Y are related. Attributable Risks (AR) are a group of measures which describe the amount of disease risk that can be attributed to a given factor X. ...
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| attributable risk |
A measure of public health impact of an exposure or characteristic; it is the rate of disease occurrence or death ("risk") in a group that is exposed to a particular factor which can be attributed to the exposure to that factor.
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