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Exposed Group

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-010461

1. A group whose members have had contact with a suspected cause of, or possess a characteristic that is a suspected determinant of, a particular health problem.

2. In epidemiology, the exposed group (or simply, the exposed) is often used to connote a group whose members have been exposed to a supposed cause of a disease or health state of interest, or possess a characteristic that is a determinant of the health outcome of interest. [Last 1983]

3. In epidemiology, the exposed group (or simply, the exposed) is often used to connote a group whose members have been exposed to a supposed cause of a disease or health state of interest or posses a characteristic that is a determinant of the health outcome of interest. [MERREA 2005]

4. A group whose members have been exposed to a supposed cause of disease or health state of interest, or possess a characteristic that is a determinant of the health outcome of interest. [CDC 2005]

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-010461
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesCDC Glossary of Epidemiology Terms; Thesaurus of Terms Used in Microbial Risk Assessment
Record as JSON 
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  "references": [
    "CDC Glossary of Epidemiology Terms",
    "Thesaurus of Terms Used in Microbial Risk Assessment"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/exposed-group/"
}

Record 10,461 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.