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  • Public Health
  • Biostatistics

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  • Quantifying disease-causing exposures is crucial for public health.
  • Assessing individual risk factor contributions becomes complex with multiple exposures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a new method for disease attribution using aggregate or summary data.
  • To enable accurate apportionment of disease burden among various risk factors.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a disease attribution model utilizing aggregate data or summary statistics.
  • Applied the method to apportion disease burden to independent and interaction effects of risk factors.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method successfully allocates the total disease burden (100%).
  • Disease burden is attributed to major risk factors and their interactions, as well as other factors collectively.

Conclusions:

  • The disease attribution method is simple and straightforward.
  • Recommended for use in disease burden studies due to its ease of calculation and comprehensive apportionment.