Estimating preventable fractions of disease caused by a specified biological mechanism: PAHs in smoking lung cancers as an example.

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Epidemiology textbooks often interpret population attributable fractions based on 2 x 2 tables or logistic regression models of exposure-response associations as preventable fractions, i.e., as fractions of illnesses in a population that would be prevented if exposure were removed. In general, th...

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