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Exercise regularly & Prevent / Get rid of CAD

Exercise is the key to good health


Be sure to exercise daily

Exercise keeps you healthy

REPLACE EXERCISE WITH SOME HOMOEOPATHIC / SIDDHA MEDICINE

Hypothetical Research Question


Your mission:
Reduce the incidence of heart disease

Your belief:
Regular exercise is the key to good health

Your hypothesis
Regular exercise decreases/cures the risk of CAD

Example of a Cross-Sectional Study

Association between regular exercise

and CAD in the community

Cross-sectional Study
Sample of Population Exercisers Non-Exercisers

Prevalence of CAD

Prevalence of CAD

Time Frame = Present

Cross-sectional Study
Regular exercise +
C A D

10
90

90
10

Case-Control Study
Regular exercise +
Regular exercise -

Cases
Patients with CAD

Regular exercise + Regular exercise -

Controls Patients w/o CAD

Past

Present

Example of a Case-Control Study

Are those with CAD less likely to have

exercised regularly?

Prospective Cohort Study


CAD
Regular exercise No CAD

Regular exercise +

CAD No CAD

Present

Future

Example of a Cohort Study

To see the effects of regular exercise on CAD mortality in a population

Experimental Studies
Clinical trials provide the gold
standard of determining the relationship between exercise and cardiovascular disease prevention.

Clinical Trial

Study Population

R a n d o m i z e

Treatment Group

Outcomes

Control Group

Outcomes

Clinical Trial

Study Population

R a n d o m i z e

Exercise

No CAD

CAD

No exercise

No CAD
CAD

Epidemiological Studies: Summary


Cost Duration Sample Size Incidence, Prevalence Multiple Outcomes Bias Prone Causality CrossSectional + + Varies CaseControl ++ ++ Small Cohort +++ +++ Large Incidence Yes No No RCT ++++ +++ Varies Incidence Yes No Yes

Prevalence None Yes Yes No No Yes No

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