Chunk #34 — Methods — Mortality and disease burden attributable to individual and clusters of risk factors

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A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

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Burden attributable to categorical exposures was calculated by comparing exposure categories to a reference category for each age, sex, year, and cause according to the following formula: PAF=∑i=1nPi(RRi−1)∑i=1nPi(RRi−1)+1