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Contemporary
epidemiology owes most of its development to the efforts of epidemiologists
and biostatisticians in the middle of the twentieth century to address the
problem of chronic, noncommunicable disease latency. For example, cancer may
not manifest itself until 20 years or more after causal exposures. Latency
thus impedes efforts to establish cause-and-effect relationships.
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