All-cause mortality Correct Answer: death by any cause: cancer, heart attack, stroke
What is the Nurses' Health Study? Correct Answer: Prospective study, began in 1976 with 121,700 female nurses
What did Nurses'
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All-cause mortality Correct Answer: death by any cause: cancer, heart attack, stroke
What is the Nurses' Health Study? Correct Answer: Prospective study, began in 1976 with 121,700 female nurses
What did Nurses' Health Study do? Correct Answer: Collected data, identified participants death by searching the National Dealth Index based on physical activity
How was PA accessed in the Nurses' Health Study? Correct Answer: Through different self-reports
1980: Average hours spent on different activities?
1982: Average hours in activities strenuous enough to build up sweat?
1986: Hours per week of specific activites?
What did the Nurses' Health study find? Correct Answer: - Risk of all-cause mortality reduced by ~20-30% as activity levels increased
- biggest decrease in risk occured when participants exercised 1-1.9 hours/week
Engaging in physical activity reduced the risk of all-cause mortality by? Correct Answer: 33%
dose-response relationship Correct Answer: the relationship between the different doses and the responses they generate
eg. Increase PA = decrease chances of dying
Statistics of Cancer Correct Answer: - 1 in 2 expected to be diagnosed with Cancer
- 1 in 4 expected to die from Cancer
Cancer death rates decresed for both male and female by how much and what year? Correct Answer: male by 32% and female by 17% from 1988 to 2017
What are the 4 most common cancers and what is the survival rate of the top cancer? Correct Answer: Lung, Colorectal, Breast, & Prostate
Lung, 5-year survival rate = 17%
Which cancer has the worst survival rate? Corre
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