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What is a commutable disease?
A communicable disease is one that one person can catch from another person. The flu is one such disease. A noncommunicable disease is one that one person can not catch from another. Cancer is one such disease.
What is the probability of testing positive for the disease?
The probability isP(you have the disease)*P(the test shows positive when testing someone with the disease) +P(you don't have the disease)*P(the test shows positive when testing someone without the disease).The second category is particularly important if the disease is rare but the probability of a type II error is large.
What percentage of patients with Sickle Cell Disease is not of African decent?
Sickle Cell Disease can be found in patients of any nationality or decent. Both parents must carry the recessive gene for this disease, and only then their offspring have a 25% chance of inheriting the disease. Those of African decent have approximately an 8% chance of inheriting the disease, Hispanics have about a 0.07% chance of inheriting the disease, and whites have roughly a 0.001% chance of inheriting the disease.
What is the formula of incidence rate?
# of new cases of a specified disease in a population / population at risk for getting the disease
What is the root of disease?
dis
What disease is Heart disease lung disease and diabetes considered?
Heart disease, lung disease and diabetes can all be considered organ diseases. Lung disease is a pulmonary disease, while heart disease is a cardiovascular disease. They are different.
What kind of disease is cardiac disease?
Cardiac disease is disease of the heart.
Does TI have a disease?
NO, T.I. does not have a disease they say he has a disease because he is very skinny but he does not have a disease.NO, T.I. does not have a disease they say he has a disease because he is very skinny but he does not have a disease.
What is a disease of affluence?
Heart disease is sometimes called a disease of affluence.
Are Coronary artery disease and heart disease the same?
No; Coronary artery disease is a heart disease; or, CAD is one a disease that progresses into to Cardiomyopathy (heart disease) and MI. CAD is an aetiology of heart disease.
What is the disease of a heart?
Cardiac Disease, Heart disease.
Is malaria an acute disease or chronic disease?
malaria is an acute disease
What is the difference between disease disease?
Every disease is an illness but not every illness is a disease (A disease is not a virus, parasite, etc but an illness could be)
What is the adjective of disease?
___________ disease - adjective the disease - noun to __________ - verb no answer
Is degenerative disease inherited disease or genetic disease?
inherited
Is huntington's disease dominate or recessive?
It is autosomal dominant, meaning it is not on a sex chromosome (X or Y). If one of your parents has the disease and they are heterozygote for the disease than there is a 50% chance of inheriting the disease yourself. If one of your parents has the disease and is homozygote for the disease (very unlikely!) then you will 100% inherit Huntington's Disease. If both of your parents have the disease and are both heterozygotes for the disease then there is a 75% chance that you will have the disease.
What are true statements about Huntington's Disease?
In the United States, about 1 in every 30,000 people has Huntington's Disease.
