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What is the prevalence of a health problem?
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How common it is in a population.
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Change or difference?
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A change is over time; a difference is between populations.
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Why can genes not explain the rise in obesity?
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It happened too fast for genes to change.
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What did the Pima comparison show?
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Same genetic background, different lives, very different health.
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One factor that explains differences between populations?
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Food, activity, income or norms.
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