Prolonged Exposure to Elevations of PTH Causes the Development of What

question 10

Multiple Choice

Prolonged exposure to elevations of PTH causes the development of what bone disease (characterized by rapid bone turnover with an excess of collagen production) ?

• A) ​rickets
• B) ​osteomalacia
• C) ​osteopenia
• D) ​osteosarcoma
• E) ​osteitis fibrosa cystica

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Definitions:

Main Effect

In statistics, the term refers to the primary effect of an independent variable on a dependent variable in experimental design.

Material

The substance or substances from which a thing is or can be made.

Interaction

In statistics and research, the occurrence when the effect of one variable on an outcome is influenced by the level of another variable.

Marginal Means

The means of each variable in a multivariate analysis, holding the values of other variables constant, used to interpret complex interactions.