Study Design — Flashcards

What type of bias occurs when patients change their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed? _____

One assumption of Hardy-Weinberg population genetics is that _____ is not occuring

For a chronic disease, how are prevalence and incidence related? _____

Prevalence is _____ than incidence for chronic diseases (e.g. diabetes)

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the _____ leading cause of death in adults

Odds are the _____ of the probability of having an event to the probability of not having

Accidents are the _____ leading cause of death in children

In the United States, cancer is the second leading cause of death in which of the following age groups?_____

Are case-control studies useful for measuring incidence and/or prevalence? _____

What is the most common cause of death in from 1 - 44 years old? _____