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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on November 3, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 164(12):1254-1255; doi:10.1093/aje/kwk082
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American Journal of Epidemiology Copyright © 2006 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved; printed in U.S.A.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: "ESTIMATING THE PROPORTION OF DISEASE DUE TO CLASSES OF SUFFICIENT CAUSES"

Kurt Hoffmann1 and W. Dana Flanders2

1 Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke, 14558 Nuthetal, Germany
2 Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA 30322

(e-mail: khoff@dife.de)

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An approach was recently proposed for grouping similar sufficient causes into classes and estimating the proportion of disease that is due to these classes (1). However, the interpretation of the classes formed was partly misleading. We want to clarify the meaning of the derived classes of sufficient causes and to illustrate the former misinterpretation.

The recently published method (1) provides a possible approach to estimate . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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