misc.

Question 1

risks of getting alz is African American are ___x more likely than white
Older Hispanic ____x more likely than white

Answer 1

2, 1.5

Question 2

What are some complications associated with alz

Answer 2

injury, uti, pnuemonia

Question 3

What is the last thing to be affected by osteoporosis

Answer 3

sternum

Question 4

How many times more likely are you to experience a hip fracture due to osteoporosis

Answer 4

2-3

men tend to die within a year

Question 5

__-__% cases of osteoporosis realted directly to family history

Answer 5

7-10

Question 6

1. According to the article, what are the three main facets of the tobacco health threat for women?

Answer 6

The three main facets of the tobacco health threat for women are exposure to secondhand smoke from male smokers and the diversion of family resources from food, shelter, healthcare and education to purchase tobacco products and tobacco use by women

Question 7

2. Global trends indicate that smoking among women is what: increasing, decreasing, or staying the same

Answer 7

increasing

Question 8

3. According to the article, what two events have long been associated with smoking increase among women?

Answer 8

Women’s emancipation and increase in status are the two events that have long been associated with smoking increase among women.

Question 9

4. Studies indicate that tobacco companies, when marketing to females, attempt to link smoking with what desirable attributes

Answer 9

Tobacco companies attempt to link smoking with desirable attributes such as independence, modernity, glamour, stress relief and weight control.

Question 10

5. What has had a ‘major impact’ on reducing smoking prevalence in high income countries?

Answer 10

Tobacco control policies have had a major impact on reducing smoking prevalence in high income countries

Question 11

6. The authors suggest what type of understanding/approach would best serve to plan strategies aimed at stopping and reversing smoking trends among women?

Answer 11

The authors suggest that tobacco control strategies aimed at stopping and ultimately reversing the smoking epidemic in women need to be grounded in a multifaceted understanding of women’s smoking patterns.

Question 12

7. What do the authors pose as a challenge for the 21st Century regarding tobacco use among women?

Answer 12

The authors say that a challenge for the 21st Century regarding tobacco use among women is to prevent further rise and reduce currently high levels of tobacco use, while ensuring that women’s status continues to improve

Question 13

1. What do the authors report as a ‘potentially cost-effective means to improve long-term health outcomes”?

Answer 13

Behavioral risk factor reduction is a potentially cost-effective means to improve long-term health outcomes.

Question 14

2. What three variables were used as risk factors for impaired functional status and premature mortality

Answer 14

The three variables that were used as risk factors for impaired functional status and premature mortality are body mass index, cigarette smoking and physical inactivity.

Question 15

3. The study indicated that even though age of death was similar, mortality rates were _____% higher for high- compared to low-risk participants?

Answer 15

50

Question 16

4. Of the three variables listed in #2, which was associated with a 2-fold increased risk of moderate disability

Answer 16

smoking

Question 17

6. The study showed that the three variables researched are persistently associated with what

Answer 17

Body mass index, cigarette smoking, and physical inactivity are persistently associated with cumulative disability and increased mortality

Question 18

7. What did the authors list as the main conclusion to their study?

Answer 18

The main conclusion in this study as listed by the authors is that maintenance of healthy lifestyle behaviors aim at helping to reduce morbidity far into the life span based on findings that health risk factors in the 7th decade of life can predict disability and mortality in the 8th and 9th decades of life.