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Pie Model Of Alzheimer's Disease

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Causality can be defined as a cause and effect relationship. In epidemiology cause is the exposure and effect is the disease or death. With Alzheimer’s disease I would use a pie model to identify the cause and effect of the disease. According to Friis and Sellers (2014), “The model indicates that a disease may be caused by more than one casual mechanism.” This relates to the risk factors of about 1 out of 20 people over the age of 65 will develop Alzheimer 's disease, also that women are more perceptible of getting this disease, as well as, people with that specific gene type, professional athletes, African Americans and Latinos. Each one of these risk factors increases an individuals chance of getting Alzheimer’s, the more factors you have
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