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. 2022 Feb:142:242-245.
doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.11.027. Epub 2021 Nov 17.

Rethinking Table 1

Ralph I Horwitz  1 , Gabriella Lobitz  2 , McKayla Mawn  2 , Allison Hayes Conroy  3 , Mark R Cullen  4 , Ida Sim  5 , Burton H Singer  6
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Rethinking Table 1

Ralph I Horwitz et al. J Clin Epidemiol. 2022 Feb.

Abstract

Clinical and translational medicine studies of disease risk or treatment response typically include a table 1 comparing groups on age, sex, and race and/or ethnicity. Although customarily treated as biological variables, each denote biography, elements of a person's lived experience. Capturing these biographical features is essential to achieving the ambition of personalized medicine.

Keywords: Biosocial medicine; Clinical epidemiology; Social determinants of health.

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