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Chapter3: Ways Of Knowing About Nutrition
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A study of smoking and lung cancer was conducted in a small island population. There were a total of 1,000 people in the study, and the study participants were followed over a ten year period. Four hundred were smokers and 600 were not. Of the smokers, fifty developed lung cancer. Of the non-smokers, 10 developed lung cancer.

Calculate the relevant measure of association, interpret and make a conclusion.

Compute Attributable Risk and interpret .

Describe the difference between incidence rate and the prevalence rate. 

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