BIOL 439 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: New Born, Intellectual Disability, Yeast Artificial Chromosome
5 Mar 2018
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Lecture one also discuss a couple of tools of epidemiology including odds ratio (or). It is an estimate of the risk associated with exposure. Key points: the general concept of (cid:494)exposure(cid:495) ties the slides together today. Epidemiology seeks to explain the distribution of disease and answer the question: One ward (this is the (cid:494)exposure(cid:495)) was associated with a much higher incidence of. )n (cid:883)(cid:890)(cid:886)(cid:882), vienna(cid:495)s general hospital had two maternity wards with 300 beds each. (cid:494)childbed fever(cid:495) than the other. Definition: exposure: the period between when the disease or outcome begins and when the outcome is identified or diagnosed. In 1847 semmelweis discovered that incidence in the first maternity ward (10%) could be reduced to the same levels as the second (2%), if the doctors and students washed their hands. Childbed fever symptoms: bloated stomach, multiple absyss(cid:495) and fever. )t is now called (cid:494)septicaemia(cid:495) (cid:523)blood poisoning(cid:524): an infection caused by large amounts of bacteria in the bloodstream.
