Epidemiologists have found that sedentary people are twice as likely to develop a particular health condition as people who exercise regularly. This means that
A) sedentary people have a relative risk of 2.0 for this health condition.
B) sedentary people have a relative risk of 0.50 for this health condition.
C) there is a cause-and-effect relationship between lack of exercise and the health condition.
D) lack of exercise is the only contributing factor to development of the health condition.
Answer: A) sedentary people have a relative risk of 2.0 for this health condition.
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