Some thoughts...

[docman85]

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So on a particular Qbank, I ran into 2 issues that completely went against things I have read both in FA and have been taught for the past 2 years.

The question stated that the leading cause of death in age group 25-44 was injury, while I put cancer, just like it said in FA.

The other q was the medication used to treat hyperthyroid in a prego at around 30 wks. and I propylthiouracil just as I was taught and also as it states in FA and google and goljan and any other source I can find. The correct answer was methimazole which it even said in the explanation that it was more teratogenic than PTU.

I'm just curious to see what responses are and on the real deal (both COMLEX and USMLE) I think i will be sticking with my original answers.... unless someone can show me legit reasoning for these answers

 

[MudPhudHopeful]

So on a particular Qbank, I ran into 2 issues that completely went against things I have read both in FA and have been taught for the past 2 years.

The question stated that the leading cause of death in age group 25-44 was injury, while I put cancer, just like it said in FA.

The other q was the medication used to treat hyperthyroid in a prego at around 30 wks. and I propylthiouracil just as I was taught and also as it states in FA and google and goljan and any other source I can find. The correct answer was methimazole which it even said in the explanation that it was more teratogenic than PTU.

I'm just curious to see what responses are and on the real deal (both COMLEX and USMLE) I think i will be sticking with my original answers.... unless someone can show me legit reasoning for these answers

Hmmm, well I can't answer your second question, since I haven't reviewed endo yet, but I can answer your first question about causes of death. FA doesn't really stratify leading causes of death by age group very well, so it doesn't give a very accurate picture of leading causes of death. For example, like you said according to FA 2010, the leading causes of death for the 25-64 age group is cancer, heart disease, suicide, and stroke. That's a rather large age range. I go by what I read in BRS behavioral, which divides the leading causes of death into more groups with smaller age ranges:

Newborns: Congenital, SIDS, and prematurity

1-4: Accidents, congenital, cancers

5-15: Accidents, cancers, homicide

15-25: Accidents, homicide, suicide

25-45: Accidents, AIDS, cancer

45-65: Cancer, heart disease, stroke

65+: heart disease, cancer, stroke



I have used that list for those types of questions, and I haven't missed one yet.

 

[nitpick]

So on a particular Qbank, I ran into 2 issues that completely went against things I have read both in FA and have been taught for the past 2 years.

The question stated that the leading cause of death in age group 25-44 was injury, while I put cancer, just like it said in FA.

The other q was the medication used to treat hyperthyroid in a prego at around 30 wks. and I propylthiouracil just as I was taught and also as it states in FA and google and goljan and any other source I can find. The correct answer was methimazole which it even said in the explanation that it was more teratogenic than PTU.

I'm just curious to see what responses are and on the real deal (both COMLEX and USMLE) I think i will be sticking with my original answers.... unless someone can show me legit reasoning for these answers

From FDA article--"Propylthiouracil may be the treatment of choice during and just before the first trimester of pregnancy, as fetal abnormalities have been observed with methimazole in early pregnancy."