Limitations in the use of race in the study of disease causation.

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Tremendous variation exists in the rates of many chronic diseases across racial groups. However, serious technical and conceptual limitations hamper the ability of racial comparisons to illuminate the causative pathways. First, race is confounded by social class, which is complex, and like other confounders of race, may not be measured with equal validity across racial groups. Second, statistical "adjustments"...

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