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Abstract
MARTI CARVAJAL, Arturo and MUNOZ NAVARRO, Sergio. ¿Existe asociación entre el virus de la Hepatitis B y el carcinoma hepatocelular?: Cómo demostrarlo mediante gastroenterología basada en la evidencia. Gen [online]. 2006, vol.60, n.2, pp.144-146. ISSN 0016-3503.
In epidemiology, relative risk and absolute risk are expressions of measuring of the association between binary variables. In a direct way, they allow to settle down, the intensity of the relationship and to describe the probability of damage for the exposure variable. Their applications are described.
Keywords : Relative Risk; Risk Ratio; Absolute Risk; Cohort; Evidence-based Gastroenterology.