Assessment of Causation in Epidemiologic Research

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Medicine - Epidemiology, grade: A, Trident University, language: English, abstract: In this assignment I assessed the relationship between soy consumption and breast cancer which has been studied by Sacks et al (2006), Messina & Loprinzi (2001), Wu et al (2008), and Trock et al (2006). I used the Bradford Hill criteria and assess whether soy has an inverse causal relationship with breast cancer.