Nutritional epidemiology ____.
a. is a fairly new area of study
b. focuses on the role of Western diet and chronic disease
c. always utilizes controlled, clinical trial protocols
d. currently focuses on deficiency diseases
Q. 2The major objective of the Nurse's Health Study I was to ____.
a. investigate the development of cardiovascular disease
b. prevent or delay the development of type 2 diabetes
c. investigate diets and lifestyle risk factors for chronic disease in women
d. evaluate men's health and fitness to incidence of serious illness
Q. 3The most appropriate use of a correlational study is to ____.
a. generate hypotheses
b. draw conclusions
c. change public policy
d. validate previous studies
Q. 4A study that follows a group of individuals free of the disease or condition of interest into the future is an example of a(n) ____ study.
a. retrospective cohort
b. prospective cohort
c. retrospective cross-sectional
d. prospective cross-sectional
Q. 5An investigation of the correlation between consumption of genetically modified corn and colon cancer incidence and mortality rates in humans is an example of a(n) ____ study.
a. observational
b. ecological
c. experimental
d. meta-analysis
Q. 6In a(n) ____ study, systematic, quantitative methods are used to combine the results of all relevant studies to produce an overall estimate.
a. trend
b. experimental
c. non-biased
d. meta-analysis
Q. 7In a(n) ____ study, groups of people are studied to examine the relationship between exposure and disease.
a. trend
b. ecological
c. cohort
d. case-control
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