Estimating the contribution of individual risk factors to disease in a person with more than one risk factor

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 588-592

  McElduff, Patrick ^a   Attia, John ^b   Ewald, Ben ^b   Cockburn, Jill ^c   Heller, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Causality; Epidemiologic methods; Renal cell carcinoma; Risk assessment; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LEGAL ASPECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ASBESTOS; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LIABILITY, LEGAL; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 0036281279     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(02)00388-8     Document Type: Article

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