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Showing posts with label relative risk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label relative risk. Show all posts
Sunday, May 22, 2022

Common Things Are Common, But What is Common? Operationalizing The Axiom

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"Prevalence [sic: incidence] is to the diagnostic process as gravity is to the solar system: it has the power of a physical law." ...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Increasing Disparities in Infant Mortality? How a Narrative Can Hinge on the Choice of Absolute and Relative Change

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An April, 11th, 2018 article in the NYT entitled " Why America's Black Mothers and Babies are in a Life-or-Death Crisis " mak...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

A Centrum a Day Keeps the Cancer at Bay?

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Alerted as usual by the lay press to the provocative results of a non-provocative study, I read with interest the article in the Octobe...
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Professor of Medicine, University of Utah. Former affiliations: Outside Hospital x 7.5 years; Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University; Fellowship & MPH: Johns Hopkins Hospital & Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Residency: The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center; MD: The Ohio State University; BA, Spanish: Miami University, Ohio. All views are my own with NO institutional endorsement.
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