1000 Adults Who Presented to Their Local Emergency Department with a Possible

question 4

Multiple Choice

1000 adults who presented to their local emergency department with a possible heart attack had a blood sample collected for laboratory tests.It was later found that 300 of
These people had not had a heart attack and the levels of triglycerides in the blood of
This group were compared with the levels among the 700 who had had a heart attack
Giving the following results: The odds ratio for the association between high triglycerides and heart attack is:

• A)3.0
• B)6.0
• C)12.0
• D)2.3
• E)It cannot be calculated from the data shown

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