You Are Investigating the Role of Physical Activity in Heart

question 8

Multiple Choice

You are investigating the role of physical activity in heart disease and suggest that physical activity protects against having a heart attack. While presenting these data to your colleagues, someone asks if you have thought about confounders such as factor X. This factor X could have confounded your interpretation of the data if it:

• A) is a factor for some other disease, but not heart disease.
• B) is a factor associated with physical activity and heart disease.
• C) is a part of the pathway by which physical activity affects heart disease.
• D) has caused a lack of follow-up of test subjects.

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