A Patient with High Blood Pressure Who Is Otherwise Healthy

question 12

Multiple Choice

A patient with high blood pressure who is otherwise healthy is counseled to restrict sodium intake.This is an example of

• A) primary prevention.
• B) secondary prevention.
• C) tertiary prevention.
• D) disease treatment.

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Definitions:

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped data distribution that is symmetric about the mean, representing a common pattern in which most occurrences take place near the average and fewer occur as you move away.

Two-tailed Test

A hypothesis test where the area of interest is in both tails of the probability distribution, allowing for investigating deviations in two opposite directions.

T Distribution

A probability distribution that arises when estimating the mean of a normally distributed population in situations where the sample size is small and population variance is unknown.

One-tailed Test

A statistical hypothesis test in which the region of rejection is on only one side of the sampling distribution, used when the research hypothesis predicts a direction of the effect.