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Incidence, Prevalence, Risk and Causation

Which of the following is evidence that an association is cause-and- effect?

Temporality (cause precedes effect)

Strength of relationship

Dose-response relationship

Reversibility

All of the above

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Disease X has an incidence rate of 0.2% per annum. Its population prevalence is 1%. Disease X is likely to be:

Acute tonsillitis

Acute bacterial pneumonia

Acute viral upper respiratory tract infection

Acute urinary tract infection

Rheumatoid arthritis

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The following information relates to questions 13 to 15 inclusive. The incidence rate of lung cancer in Victorian smokers is 0.3% per annum, while the incidence rate of lung cancer in Victorian nonsmokers is 0.014% per annum. In Victoria, the risk of lung cancer attributable to smoking is:

0.29% per annum

0.3% per annum

0.014% per annum

0.314% per annum

None of the above

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In Victoria, the risk of lung cancer in smokers relative to nonsmokers is:

0.3 per annum

0.014 per annum

21.4 per annum

0.05 per annum

None of the above

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Assuming the absolute annual risk of lung cancer in Victorian smokers remains constant over time, what is the absolute risk of lung cancer in a Victorian after 10 years of smoking?

0.3%

3%

30%

6%

None of the above

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Association / correlation

The following information and Figure 6 relate to question 16.

Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and triglyceride (TG) level were measured in 100 patients with ischemic heart disease. For each patient the LDL-C level was plotted against TG level in a scatter plot.

Figure 6 - scatter plot of LDL-C level versus TG level for 100 patients. r denotes Pearson’s correlation coefficient:

Regarding the information presented in Figure 6, which of the following statements is correct?

There is a relatively strong linear correlation between LDL-C and TG level

As LDL-C increases, so does TG level

81% of the variability in LDL-C relative to TG is explained by a line of ‘best fit’ through the dots

All of the above

None of the above

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Types of Variables and Univariate Analysis

The following information and Table 1 relate to questions 17 to 20 inclusive.

In a case control study, a team of investigators sought to compare the demographic and cardiovascular risk profile of patients with and without coronary artery disease (CAD). Univariate comparisons are presented in Table 1.

Table 1 - Univariate comparison of characteristics in patients with and without coronary artery disease (CAD):

What type of variable is ‘age’?

Discrete

Continuous

Nominal

Ordinal

None of the above

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What type of variable is ‘sex’?

Discrete

Continuous

Nominal

Ordinal

None of the above

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What type of variable is ‘race’?

Discrete

Continuous

Nominal

Ordinal

None of the above

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With regards Table 1, which of the following statements is/are correct?

There were 86 patients in the CAD group and 870 patients in the No-CAD group.

The t-test was most likely used to compare the mean age of patients in each group.

The mean difference in age between the two groups was 9.4 years, and this difference was statistically significant at the 0.05 level.

The chi-square test was most likely used to compare the proportion of female patients in each group.

All of the above.

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Incidence, Prevalence, Risk and Causation

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15

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Association / correlation

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Types of Variables and Univariate Analysis

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