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How else can a discrete variable be categorised?

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Count variable (i.e red cell count)

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Which type of study would be the most appropriate to test the effect of a new statin on the incidence of coronary heart disease in patients with diabetes?

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Randomised control trial

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Which of the following methods cannot be used to compare the proportions in two sets of observations?

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T test (difference between the two means)

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What is prevalence?

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How common a disease or condition occurs at a given time.

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Prevalence calculation

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(Number of diseased persons)/(Number of persons in the population) = Prevalence

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What is relative risk?

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The relative risk (RR) or risk ratio is the ratio of the probability of an outcome in an exposed group to the probability of an outcome in an unexposed group.

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What is absolute risk?

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Absolute risk of a disease is your risk of developing the disease over a time period.

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What is incidence?

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Probability to develop the disease in a very small time interval

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What is the observation period?

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Observation period is the time from the start of the observation until the moment he/she develops disease.

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How are incidence and prevalence correlated?

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Incidence is positively correlated with prevalence

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Types of observational studies

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Case report 
Case series 
Cross-sectional (prevalence)
Case control (retrospective)
Cohort (prospective)
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Types of experimental studies

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Interventional, RCTs

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What is a case report?

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Study of one individual with a disease, timely or rare information

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What is a case series?

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Study of several patients with similar symptoms. May lead to general hypothesis. No controls.

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What is a cross sectional study?

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Measures exposure and disease in study group at one time point (“snapshot”).

Frequently takes the form of survey, (e.g. questions about diagnosed coronary heart disease, family history, diet).

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What is a cohort study?

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Examines one or more health effects of exposure to a specific factor.

Subjects are defined according to their exposure status and followed over time to determine their health outcomes.

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What is a case-control study?

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Individuals who have the disease of interest are in a ‘case’ group, their exposure to specific factors are compared to a ‘control’ group from the same population sample

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What is an ecological study?

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Evaluates an association using the population rather than the individual as the unit of analysis. The rates of disease are examined in relation to factors described on the population level.

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Two types of cohort studies?

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Prospective, and retrospective

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Prospective cohort study?

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Exposure groups are followed into the future in order to observe the outcomes

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Retrospective cohort study?

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Both the exposures and outcomes have already occurred when the study begins.

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What can RCTs calculate from results?

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A risk

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Can case control studies calculate risk?

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No

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What quantitative data can a case control study produce?

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What is an odds ratio?
Probability that an event will occur divided by the probability that it will not occur
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Case control study table?
Cases and controls by exposed and unexposed
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Odds ratio from case control table?
exposed cases/unexposed cases = x exposed controls/ unexposed controls = y odds ratio = x/y
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Strengths of case control
Good for rare disease Relatively fast Relatively inexpensive Can look at the association between the disease of interest and many kinds of exposures
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Weaknesses of case control
Susceptible to bias May be hard to find suitable controls Time relations may not be clear Associations that are revealed may not be causal
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Relative risk calculation
Risk of developing a disease in the exposed group divided by the risk in the unexposed group.
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Relative risk table
Present/ absent disease by exposed/not exposed
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Relative risk calculation formula
exposed disease present / exposed present + absent all over not exposed disease present/ not exposed present + absent
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If RR = 1
There is no association between the factor under consideration and the disease.
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If RR<1
If RR < 1 there is a decreased risk of developing the disease if one is exposed to the factor under consideration.
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If RR>1
If RR > 1 there is an increased risk of developing the disease if one is exposed to the factor under consideration.
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Infection cycle needs?
An infectious source Receptive susceptible host Spread to further hosts - infection amplifies
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Incubation period
Time between catching an infection and symptoms appearing
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Latent period
Time between catching an infection and diagnostic signs (still asymptomatic)
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Infectious period
The time period during which an infected person is able to transmit the disease to a susceptible host or vector. Not necessarily associated with symptoms
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What is basic reproduction rate (R0)?
R0 = the average number of persons infected by one disease source
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If R0 < 1
The disease will eventually disappear
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If R0 > 1
The disease will continue to spread
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R0 formula?
R0 = C x P x D C: the number of contacts an infected person makes per unit time P: the probability of transmission per contact D: the duration the infected person is infectious to others
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Differences in transmission between enveloped and nonenveloped viruses
Non enveloped viruses are more virulent, because they don’t bud from the cell, they cause host cell lysis
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Non enveloped vs enveloped virus mode of transmission
Enveloped - secretions Non-enveloped - faecal oral
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What are non-enveloped viruses resistant to and why?
Due to the protein shell, these viruses are resistant to heat, acids, and drying
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How does vaccination help the population?
Preventing people joining the Infectious Pool.
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What is pc?
The critical level of immunisation to eradicate the disease
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How is pc found
Calculating how far the proportion of susceptible has to be reduced in the face of an agent of a given Reproductive Rate, R0 The higher R0, the higher pc needs to be.
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pc calculation
pc=1−1/R0
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What is the most likely cause of the drop in disease incidence in vaccinated groups?
Immune protection
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What is the most likely cause of the drop in disease incidence in unvaccinated groups?
Herd immunity
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What is the most likely reason for a similar carbohydrate conjugate vaccine strategy to fail with another serotype of meningococcus?
The antigen for another serotype (B) may be too similar to a human antigen
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What does “a relative risk of 1.82” mean?
The risk for developing heart disease is 1.82 times greater (or 82% higher)
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What do you understand by “95% confidence interval 1.25 to 2.64”?
We are 95% certain that the true relative risk lies within the range 1.25-2.64
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When can we say risk is insignificant?
When confidence interval includes 1 (i.e no effect)
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Investigate whether a person’s sex was a risk factor for malaria. In their village, there were exactly 400 adults. 120 men had experienced at least one episode of malaria, whereas eighty men had remained malaria-free. In contrast, 120 women were malaria-free and 80 had experienced malaria. What was the malaria incidence rate in men?
120/200=0.6
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Investigate whether a person’s sex was a risk factor for malaria. In their village, there were exactly 400 adults. 120 men had experienced at least one episode of malaria, whereas eighty men had remained malaria-free. In contrast, 120 women were malaria-free and 80 had experienced malaria. What was the malaria incidence rate in women?
80/200 = 0.4
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Investigate whether a person’s sex was a risk factor for malaria. In their village, there were exactly 400 adults. 120 men had experienced at least one episode of malaria, whereas eighty men had remained malaria-free. In contrast, 120 women were malaria-free and 80 had experienced malaria What is the relative risk for men of malaria?
0.6/0.4

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