1. Identify each of the following risk measures as either a prevalence, a cumulativeincidence, or an incidence rate.a) Each year, 2.2 million new cases of cancer are diagnosed, including about 1 millioncases of skin cancer.b) Investigators reported in a recent cross sectional study of 215 HIV-positive subjectsreceiving antiretroviral therapy that 11 subjects showed signs or symptoms ofhepatotoxicity.c) In 1997, an estimated 64,207 people sustained nonfatal firearm-related injuries and weretreated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms.d) In 1997, 33% of firearm-related injuries resulted in death.e) A recent cohort study comparing ACE-inhibitor users to Ace-inhibitor nonusers showedthat 50 ACE-inhibitor developed a cough during 2470 person-years of follow-up.

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