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What are the three most important types of diabetes?
What are the three most important types of diabetes?
1) type 1 DM: auto-immune disease. No production of insulin, need lifelong insulin injections
2) type 2 DM: metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia and altered lipid metabolism.
3) Gestational DM: state of hyperglycemia that develops during pregnancy.
1) Name cancer risk factors.
Fill in: 30-40% of all cancer cases could be avoided by (2). (3) cancer is most affected by diet and physical activity: 50% decreasing.
1) Name cancer risk factors.
Fill in: 30-40% of all cancer cases could be avoided by (2). (3) cance...
1) Body fatness in creases risk of > 10 types of cancer. Red and processed meat increases risk of colorectal cancer. Alcohol increases the risk of several types of cancer.
2) healthy food habits and an increase in physical activity.
3) Colorectal
Basic reproduction number; R0
Indicates transmission potential of an infectious agent
Defined as the expected number of the new infectious host that a randomly selected infectious host will directly (not through other individuals) produce during his/her period of infectiousness when randomly mixed in a large, homogenous population where everyone is completely susceptible.
Influenced by DOTS. What does DOTS stand for?
Basic reproduction number; R0
Indicates transmission potential of an infectious agent
Defined as the...
Duration, Opportunity, Transmission probability, Susceptibility probability.
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