Person‐Years of Life Lost

Smith, Laura

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“…Thus, it can be interpreted as the fractional reduction of disease occurrence that would result from changing the current distribution of exposure in the population to some specific modified distribution characterized by reduced exposure, with AR corresponding to the special case of a modified distribution putting unit mass on the lowest risk configuration (i.e., with all exposure eliminated) [64][65][66]. For a potentially fatal or incurable disease, the number of person-years of life lost related to a given exposure is a measure defined as the difference between current life expectancy of the population and potential life expectancy with the exposure eliminated [67][68][69]. This quantity may be difficult to estimate.…”

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Biostatistics and epidemiology: measuring the risk attributable to an environmental or genetic factor

Bénichou

2007

Comptes Rendus. Biologies

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Disease frequency is measured through estimating incidence rates or disease risk. Several measures are used for assessing exposure-disease association, with adjusted estimates based on standardization, stratification, or more flexible regression techniques. Several measures are available to assess an exposure impact in terms of disease occurrence at the population level, including the commonly used attributable risk (AR). Adjusted AR estimation relies on stratification or regression techniques. Sequential and partial ARs have been proposed to handle the situation of multiple exposures and circumvent the associated non-additivity problem. Despite remaining issues in properly interpreting AR, AR remains a useful guide to assess prevention strategies.

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Biostatistics and epidemiology: measuring the risk attributable to an environmental or genetic factor

Bénichou

2007

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Person‐Years of Life Lost

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Biostatistics and epidemiology: measuring the risk attributable to an environmental or genetic factor

Biostatistics and epidemiology: measuring the risk attributable to an environmental or genetic factor

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