Nineteen percent of the patients had suffered a tear in an artery, most often in the carotid (neck) artery, and 17 percent had suffered an aneurysm (a bulge in an artery), most often in the renal (kidney) artery, the study authors reported in a symposium news release.
and analyzed with no less care than studies intended to examine risk-fac-tor associations with cancer. If proper care is not taken, descriptive studies will divert scientific resources, especially public health department resources, away from more productive activities. Descriptive epidemiology studies can also be used to evaluate cancer
1. Executive Summary. Introduction to Epidemiology is a high-school-level course designed to introduce students. to the process of scientific inquiry and to encourage them to seek out truth, analyze the world. around them, and design ways to change it. While the course focuses mainly on health and disease, the inquiry-based, dive-right-in.