To Your Health: How to Understand What Research Tells Us about Risk

by Helena Chmura Kraemer, David J. Kupfer, Karen Kraemer Lowe, et al.

Book Overview

The public is bombarded daily with reports about risk factors, many conflicting with each other, others accepted as "scientific truth" for awhile, then scientifically disproved, yet others questionable that later prove to be true. Physicians are faced with trying to make sense of those conflicting or questionable results in the scientific literature in order to guide their patients to the best possible decisions. The situation is not much easier for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019517870X
• ISBN13: 9780195178708
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"