NTP 677 Exam 2 Questions and Answers
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Epidemiology - The study of thee distribution and determinants of
health and disease in human populations
What subset of epidemiology studies the distribution of health and disease?
- Descriptive epidemiology
What subset of epidemio...
Measuring prevalence and incidence can give us clues into causes of
disease
Analytic epidemiology - ✔✔Examines associations between "exposures"
and "diseases" in hope of gaining insight into causal relationships
Describe one example of an analytic study design to answer the question:
doe mild to moderate sleep apnea cause elevated blood pressure in
humans? If so, to what degree? - ✔✔If there were no ethical concerns, we
could
Experimentally manipulate how much sleep apnea people were
experiencing and put them into different groups
Name the three basic epidemiological study designs - ✔✔Cross-sectional
Case-control
Cohort
Describe a cross-sectional study and list the advantages and
disadvantages - ✔✔Exposure and disease are assessed simultaneously
Advantage: does not take much time
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