Proportion of disease caused or prevented by a given exposure, trait or intervention.

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• Publication year

  1974

• Venue

  American Journal of Epidemiology

• Publication date

  1974-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1093/OXFORDJOURNALS.AJE.A121617PMID 4825599
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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