Critical Appraisal of Noncommunicable Disease Aetiology

Critical appraisal of non-
communicable disease aetilogy

Table of Contents
Task................................................................................................................................. 3
Question 1........................................................................................................................3
Question 2........................................................................................................................4
Question 3........................................................................................................................5
References.......................................................................................................................6

Task
Question 1
For the essay study titled “Overweight in Childhood, Adolescence and Adulthood and
Cardiovascular Risk in Later Life: Pooled Analysis of Three British Birth Cohorts” is
chosen. Study suggested that obesity in adult life span of a person is a recognised risk
factors for serious cardiovascular complications however, obesity in childhood to
adverse cardiovascular outcome is not well established (Park, Sovio, Viner, Hardy, &
Kinra, 2013). The study used the sensitive period model and categorised individuals
based on the sensitive periods which were responsible for their exposure to obesity that
is childhood, adolescence or adulthood, and the number of life stages at which those
individuals were obese (one, two or three time points). In the sensitive period model,
exposure to obesity in specific periods in the life span has more influence than on
subsequent health as compared to exposure in other periods. In accumulation of risk
model, impact of exposure to obesity over the life span gather to ascertain overall risk of
disease, were investigated by evaluating risk of disease in people with varying numbers
of life stages of exposure to obesity. Respondents self-reported the outcomes. They
were divided based on the disease outcome if they stated ever experiencing the
disease, in response to questions about the outcome. Those answers were integrated
with information on self-reported chronic disorders, causes for medical monitoring, or
hospital stay, which were coded as per the ICD codes.