HED 044 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Low-Density Lipoprotein, Moe Williams, Cardiovascular Disease
2 Nov 2020
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A major part of public healths assessment function. Evaluates effectiveness of medical and public health interventions. Epidemiology studies: inverse correlation between serum antioxidant concentrations and subsequent cancer risk. E lower and related to cholestrol level in subjects who later developed cancer. Mean serum vit e lower with increased risk of breast cancer. Form this information, epidemiologists cab infer why the disease is occuring. Patterns of teh disease, factors that influence these patterns. Increase in teh frequency of a disease above the usual and expected rate. Notfiable diseases: to report a disease - hepatitis a (in the book page 56) Increased importance with threat of bio terrorism. Heart disease- leading cause of death in us. Lung cancer and smoking - early 1950s. Questionnarie to physicians in uk: smokers, past smokers, non smokers (age at starting to smoking, amount of tobacco smoked, when they had quit smoking) Death rate from lung cancer 20x higher among smokers.
