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
Descriptive Epidemiology Designed to describe the existing distribution of variables without regard to causal associations measure prevalence and incidence of disease/health Generate hypotheses for analytic studies CANNOT TEST HYPOTHESES USING DESCRIPTIVE STUDIES Time WHERE WHO WHEN Descriptive Epidemiology Distribution of disease: Descriptive Epidemiology Person: age, sex, race/ethnicity, SES, occupation, lifestyle Place: neighborhood, state, country, environment Time: date of exposure, date of