2017•Journal of Clinical EpidemiologyOpen access

Using reference values to define disease based on the lower limit of normal biased the population attributable fraction, but not the population excess risk: the example of chronic airflow obstruction

Peter Burney, Cosetta Minelli

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Key concepts: Attributable risk, Population, Normality, Medicine, Relative risk, Absolute risk reduction, Normal population, Statistics

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