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Demographic risk
factors (background
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characteristics)
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Meet definition
of a risk factor,
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But currently
immutable to change
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More likely to
expose host to causal chain
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than be part of causal chain
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Not useful for
intervention
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But often useful
as group characteristic when targeting
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people to apply
another intervention
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