Case-Control Studies

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Retrospective: cases (have disease) vs controls (don't), look back for exposure. Measures OR. Good for RARE diseases, long latency, quick/cheap. Weakness: recall bias, selection bias, can't measure incidence/prevalence, confounding. Matching. Diagram: outcome→exposure (backwards) timeline. Exam tip: rare disease → case-control.

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