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Epidemiologic Factors

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Definition: Events, characteristics, or other definable entities that have the potential to bring about a change in a health condition or other defined outcome.  IM GEN only; for epidemiol factors of a disease, index only as disease /epidemiol (IM); no qualif; DF: EPIDEMIOL FACTORS   
Examples Age Factors; Bias (Epidemiology); Causality; Comorbidity; Confounding Factors (Epidemiology); Effect Modifier, Epidemiologic; Reproductive History; Sex Factors 		Other names Epidemiologic Determinants; Factors, Epidemiologic; Factor, Epidemiologic; Epidemiologic Factor; Epidemiologic Determinant; Determinants, Epidemiologic; Determinant, Epidemiologic

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