Chunk #32 — 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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We calculated the burden attributable to risk factors with continuous exposure by comparing the present distribution of exposure to the theoretical-minimum-risk exposure distribution for each age group, sex, year (1990 and 2010), and cause according to the following formula: PAF=∫x=0mRR(x)P1(x)dx−∫x=0mRR(x)P2(x)dx∫x=0mRR(x)P1(x)dx