Assignment title: Information


There are ten questions to be answered from two different articles Five questions for each article 4-3 Cotter Article Quiz No Strain, No Gain: Psychosocial Predictors of Physical Activity Across the Adult Lifespan http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972196/pdf/nihms243004.pdf 1. From Table 2, what was the correlation between health and education? A - 0.23 B - 0.053 C - 0.15 D - 0.001 2. Was the correlation between age and health statistically significant? A - Yes B - No C - Was not reported 3. From Table 2, how much variability in health could be accounted for by activity? A - 20% B - 45% C - 0.1% D - 4% 4. How much total variability did the step 3 variables account for in physical activity? A - 0.3% B - 13.6% C - 13.3% D - 6.94% 5. From Table 3, how much more variability in physical activity did the variables from step 2 account for than the variables in step 1? A - 11.8% B - 13.3% C - 1.6% D - 0.3% 4-4 Nordstrand Article Quiz The relationship between various measures of obesity and arterial stiffness in morbidly obese patients http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/176/art%253A10.1186%252F1471-2261- 11- 7.pdf?originUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fbmccardiovascdisord.biomedcentral.com%2Farticle%2F10. 1186%2F1471-2261- 11- 7&token2=exp=1467850057~acl=%2Fstatic%2Fpdf%2F176%2Fart%25253A10.1186%25252 F1471-2261- 11- 7.pdf*~hmac=0c42ff8035418adb9f6235b9f7d9531462eaeed516af4478fb0e0b70f3d31bff 1. For females, which variable was NOT significantly related to PWV? A - Hypertension B - Fat Mass C - Fasting glucose D - B-blocker 2. Table 2 shows correlations between the variables listed and PWV. Which variable shows the weakest relationship for males? A - Age B - Visceral fat area C - Apo-B/apo- 1 ratio D - Fasting insulin 3. Which variable shows a statistically significant relationship with PWV for both men and women? A - BMI B - WC C - WHR D - WHtR 4. Which correlation displayed in Figure 1 shows the strongest relationship? A - PWV vs. WHtR for women B - PWV vs. BMI for women C - PWV vs. WC for men D - PWV vs. WHR for men 5. For females, how much variability did age account for in PWV? A - 0.72 B - 0.52 C - 52% D - 27%