 | Patterns in Health and Disease: Epidemiology and Physiology
By studying this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
- Define or describe the science of epidemiology.
- Contrast infectious with degenerative diseases as causes of death.
- Identify the three major categories of risk factors and examples of specific risk factors in each.
- Compare the epidemiologic triad with the web of causation as models to study infectious and degenerative diseases, respectively.
- Describe the difference between primary and secondary risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD).
- Describe the steps an epidemiologist must follow to show that a risk factor is causally connected to a disease.
- Describe the hypothesis linking resistance to insulin as a cause of hypertension.
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