HLTH102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Coronary Artery Disease, Norm (Social), Sick Individuals
20 May 2016
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Relative - people with a risk factor or ppl without a risk factor ex. Whether you smoke or not, if you use a condom or not. Engage in a health behaviour - low absolute risk but high relative risk ex. Prevalence - number of ppl who smoke. Hand gliding - high relative risk and low prevalence of risk factor (not to many ppl doing it) Driving - low relative risk, high prevalence risk (lots of ppl doing it) Smoking - high relative risk and high prevalence. Some factors are modifiable but some are not (direct or indirect) If you migrate from japan to the us you adopt the risk factors. Concludes that it"s not just genetics that determines this. Amount that is genetically programmed in us differs from population to population. Cohort 3 - abundant nutrition - height is determined by genetics. Cohort 1 - lack of nutrition, can"t grow to full capacity.
