Epidemiology
7th m/c cancer in woman, 5th m/c for death (US)
The peak incidence : about 60 yrs old
Postmenopausal >80%
30% Malignancy of ovarian neoplasms in postmenopausal women Cf) 7% in premenopausal
Risk factor: low parity and infertility, (*Oral contraceptive use reduces the risk)
An issue about CHD
Junk food elevates the attack rate of
diabetes and coronary heart disease
Minesota University in America Professor Andrew O. Odegaard
Conducting a survey of Chinese Singaporean
When having fast food more than twice in a week,
the attack rate of diabetes is 27% and the death rate
of coronary disease is elevated 56%
compared with no eating fast food at all.
The prof
Ⅰ. Introduction : What is Farmland reverse mortgage(FRM)?
Farmland reverse mortgage is a system that guarantees stable life for aged farmers. The government lends aged farmers money in security for their own farmland. This system helps farmer who lack money for old age by securitizing farmland fund. Furthermore, FRM aims to strengthen the farming social safety net. These are purpose of the
Estimating CHD Risk
The National Cholesterol Education Program has developed charts for estimating the actual likelihood that one will develop CHD within the next 10 years.
Table 8.4 for adult males (p269), Table 8.5 for adult females (p270)
The ATP 3rd guidelines recommend that this assessment could be used for reducing CHD risk for persons with 2 or more CHD risk factors.
The variab
3.2 Trends
- Globally, under-five mortality has decreased by 33%, from an estimated rate of 89 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 60 deaths per 1000 live births in 2009. This decline translates into an average annual decrease in child mortality of 2.1%. Numbers of under-five deaths have declined from 12.4 million in 1990 to 8.1 million in 2009. While progress has been made, it is unequally