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Epidemiology

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Created: December 22, 2007

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Definition: The branch of medicine that studies distribution, causes and treatments of diseases in populations of people, as opposed to in individual patients.
Examples: The epidemiology of schizophrenia, across many different cultures, indicates that there are multiple risk factors for developing the disease.

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