Cardiovascular Disease A fascinating subject of recent interest is the “Hispanic paradox”: Census data “show” that coronary heart disease (CHD) has a lower prevalence in Hispanic people than in non-Hispanic whites (NHW) based on health interviews of representative samples of people from different ethnic groups from the U.S. population, although the risk-factor profile of Hispanics is generally worse (more hypertension, diabetes, and obesity in this group than in NHW). To study this further, researchers looked at a group of 1000 Hispanic men ages 50–64 from several counties in Texas who were free of CHD in 1990 and followed them for 5 years. They found that 100 of the men had developed CHD (either fatal cases or nonfatal cases in which the men survived a heart attack). Is the proportion 100 out of 1000 a prevalence rate, an incidence rate, or neither?
Cardiovascular Disease A fascinating subject of recent interest is the “Hispanic paradox”: Census data “show” that coronary heart disease (CHD) has a lower prevalence in Hispanic people than in non-Hispanic whites (NHW) based on health interviews of representative samples of people from different ethnic groups from the U.S. population, although the risk-factor profile of Hispanics is generally worse (more hypertension, diabetes, and obesity in this group than in NHW). To study this further, researchers looked at a group of 1000 Hispanic men ages 50–64 from several counties in Texas who were free of CHD in 1990 and followed them for 5 years. They found that 100 of the men had developed CHD (either fatal cases or nonfatal cases in which the men survived a heart attack). Is the proportion 100 out of 1000 a prevalence rate, an incidence rate, or neither?
Solution Summary: The author identifies whether the proportion 100 out of 1,000 is a prevalence rate or an incidence rate.
A fascinating subject of recent interest is the “Hispanic paradox”: Census data “show” that coronary heart disease (CHD) has a lower prevalence in Hispanic people than in non-Hispanic whites (NHW) based on health interviews of representative samples of people from different ethnic groups from the U.S. population, although the risk-factor profile of Hispanics is generally worse (more hypertension, diabetes, and obesity in this group than in NHW). To study this further, researchers looked at a group of 1000 Hispanic men ages 50–64 from several counties in Texas who were free of CHD in 1990 and followed them for 5 years. They found that 100 of the men had developed CHD (either fatal cases or nonfatal cases in which the men survived a heart attack).
Is the proportion 100 out of 1000 a prevalence rate, an incidence rate, or neither?
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