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Which of the following describes prevalence?
a. The number of new cases within a certain time period
b. The number of deaths or remissions of disease within a certain time
period
c. The number of person-vears within a given observation period
d. The number of cases within the population at given point in time or time
window - ✔✔c
In a retrospective cohort study, the exposure and outcomes have already
happened.
True
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, False - ✔✔True
An exposure is also known as the explanatorv variables or independent
variables. An example would be exercise.
True
False - ✔✔True
A retrospective case-control study requires researchers to find people with
the outcome or disease and people without the outcome and to
retrospectively ask those people about or somehow examine their past
exposure to the independent variable, for instance exercise.
True or false - ✔✔True
Cohort studies have a higher potential for reverse causality influencing the
outcomes than case-control or cross-sectional study designs. - ✔✔False
Cohort studies have less potential for reverse causality because the long
follow up time all deaths in the first 10 ears can be discounted
Incidence refers to the number of new cases within a given time period. -
✔✔True
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