The triumph of the null hypothesis: Epidemiology in an age of change

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 393-402

  Maziak, Wasim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Complex disease; Epidemiology; Evolutionary epidemiology; Small risk

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

AGING; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NULL HYPOTHESIS; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; LIFESTYLE;

ASTHMA; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE;

EID: 64349098019     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyn268     Document Type: Article

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