Exercise Physiology: Theory and Application to Fitness and Performance 9th Edition by Scott Powers, Edward Howley

Exercise 3

In the web of causation for atherosclerosis, are the various risk factors directly linked to the disease? How do the risk factors interact?

Step 1 of 2

The actual cause for several chronic and degenerative diseases cannot be clearly found since several factors interact in a complex way to cause the diseases. This difficulty in establishing cause for complex diseases is described by an epidemiological model called “web of causation.”