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Individuals differ in their susceptibility to various causes of morbidity and mortality. Epidemiologists are accustomed to thinking about this heterogeneity in terms of “risk factors” and “relative risks”. Some of the heterogeneity among individuals is genetic in origin and some is acquired as a result of individual behaviour (like cigarette smoking) or environmental exposure (to, say, water pollution). The levels of the risks faced by an individual change over time as the individual ages, changes his behaviour and is exposed to different conditions.
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Yashin, A.I., Vaupel, J.W. (1986). Measurement and Estimation in Heterogeneous Populations. In: Hoffmann, G.W., Hraba, T. (eds) Immunology and Epidemiology. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 65. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51691-7_12
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