A nurse in a community health clinic is preparing an in-service for staff to define the conditions of causation in epidemiology studies. Which of the following descriptions should the nurse use to define a dose-response relationship to establish causation?
A. The exposure must come before the disease develops
B. Increased exposure increases the risk of developing the disease
C. A relationship is biologically possible, and it makes sense
D. When the exposure is decreased or eliminated, the risk of the disease declines or is eliminated