last minute Flashcards
The purpose of critical appraisal:
Identify areas of weakness in a study (ANSWERS)
what does NNT mean?
The number of ppl needted to be treated before an outcome of interest occurs (ANS)
the results of a stdy show a relative risk of 11, with a 95% confidence interval of 8-14. What does this mean?
If the trial was repeated several times, we would be confident that 95% of the reulsts would lie bw 8 and 14 .
HP/health disease prevention (prevention paradox) is difficult bc:
A. dsease prevention requires persistnet behavior change
B wen preveiton is successful it is invisible as it leads to the absence of disease
C prevention is expecte to produce a financial return wheras treatment is only expected to be worth its cost
D. A,B, n C (ANS)
- pt presents to his GP to analyse results after presenting to ED last week with angina (trponinlevles nomrla, ECG normal). GP also offters to disscuss cessation of smoking with pt.
Priamary n tertiaery
a 4 yr old boy doing vegan diet
colate
person who is lactose intorlerant-
calcium
25 yr old female who is planning to concive
folate
female menstratuing heaviliy
iron
painful gyenocomastia
spironlacton
pretibial myxedema . which of these have issues with shins: diabetes n graves.
(diabetes can cause –necrobiosislypoidica –other thing that causes stuff on shins)
hashimoto doesn’t cause anything in shins
in pretibial myxedema- in early stages it tends to be asymptomatic .
answer is diabetes
haemachomatosis-causes bronzing of skin
addisions- causes pigmaentation
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Alcoholic, confused, homeless-buzzword for deficiency for thiamine (vit b1)-
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numbness n tingling in feet in wrist
B12 deficiency
pt is tanned, n they have diabetes. Bronzed diabetes- buzzword for haemachromatosis .
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which would be seen in glomerulonephritis
A 10 to the power of 6 of ,.
Red blood cell casts (ANS)
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