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In Sect. 1.5 we have listed the main categories of risk factors. The “classical” factors age, sex, time and place are the subject of purely descriptive epidemiology, which is a century-old area that started with registries of causes of death. The other categories of the list were studied systematically only in a more recent past, and that was the beginning of modern epidemiology.
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Krickeberg, K., Pham, V.T., Pham, T.M.H. (2012). Social and Genetic Epidemiology. In: Epidemiology. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1205-2_26
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