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Epidemiology of Disease

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<strong>Disease</strong> in Individuals and Populations<br />

‘Time’ factors that influence patterns <strong>of</strong><br />

disease:<br />

Calendar time<br />

• Ex: influenza outbreaks in people<br />

Subject-referent time<br />

• Ex: milk fever in dairy cattle<br />

• gestational diabetes in humans

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