Article
The next stage: molecular epidemiology.
Journal of clinical epidemiology - 1 Jun 1997
Shpilberg O, Dorman J S, Ferrell R E, Trucco M, Shahar A, Kuller L H
Abstract excerpt
The traditional approach in epidemiology of relating exposure to an environmental agent such as a drug or infective agent has been to measure an overall risk (i.e., average and then "adjust risk for demographic variables and other confounders"). An attempt is sometimes made to define a "susceptib...
Topics
- Apolipoproteins E
- Arteriosclerosis
- Carcinogens
- Chronic Disease
- Contraceptives, Oral
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Epidemiologic Methods
- Estrogen Replacement Therapy
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genotype
- Humans
- Primary Prevention
- Risk
- Thromboembolism