Austin bradford hill biography

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  • Sir Austin Bradford Hill CBE FRS was an English epidemiologist who pioneered the modern randomised clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, demonstrated the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.

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    During the twentieth century, Austin Bradford Hill researched diseases and their causes in England and developed the Bradford Hill criteria, which comprise the minimal requirements that must be met for a causal relationship to be established between a factor and a disease. Hill also suggested that researchers should randomize clinical trials to evaluate the effects of a drug or treatment bygd monitoring large groups of people. In addition, Hill advocated for case-control studies, in which researchers compare a group of people with a medical condition to a group without that condition to investigate the condition's possible causes. Hill's own work with clinical trials and case-control studies helped him prove that smoking caused lung cancer. The Bradford Hill criteria have also been used to establish causal links between factors and cancer, including reproductive cancers such as human papillomavirus that causes cervical cancer.

    Hill was born on 8 July as the third of six children to

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    Hill, Austin Bradford (–)

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    Sir Austin Bradford Hill: medical statistics and the quantitative approach to prevention of disease

    Sir Austin Bradford Hill (), son of a prominent medical physiologist, was destined for the study of medicine when World War I intervened. He chase to enlist as a pilot in the Royal Navy Air Service. Having contracted tuberculosis on his way to the Dardanelles, Hill was 'sent home to die'. In spite of the odds he recovered; but with no chance of working in physically taxing fields such as medicine or science. Advised and encouraged by Major Greenwood, he carved out for himself a career in medical statistics, first at the Medical Research Council and subsequently at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where his inspired teaching helped to shape the development of medical research in the second half of the twentieth century. He is particularly remembered for the way he made medical statistics an essential part of modern epidemiology, a new phase in an epidemiology con

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