BIO2003/BIO2005/BMS2007 Summative Assignment 2 (SA2)

The use of LDH as a warning sign

 

Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) is an intracellular enzyme. It oxidizes lactate in the presence of NAD+ (oxidised form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) or reduces pyruvate in the presence of NADH (reduced form of NAD). It is used clinically to determine cell damage in a number of organs including heart, liver, muscle and blood. There are 5 iso-enzymes of LDH. Changes in the level of iso-enzyme LDH-5 can be associated with liver function and as such elevated LDH-5 is deemed to be a useful indicator of the initial stages of liver damage that may be caused by exposure to many organic solvents. One method of gauging liver damage is to calculate the ratio of LDH-5 to LDH-1. The higher this value, the greater is the risk that liver damage is taking place. You have been provided with the value of this ratio (LDH-5:LDH-1) for each participant in the study. It is on the basis of the value of this variable that you are being asked to compare the workers’ health.

 

The study group and the data collected

 

The HSE in undertaking the study stipulated criteria for workers to take part in the study, namely:

 

  • The workers worked exclusively in the specified industries
  • They worked in areas of actual production (i.e. not in an office or other areas away from the industrial activity)
  • They had not smoked historically or currently (as self-reported by questionnaire)
  • They did not historically or currently drink alcohol above the then guideline value of 21/14 (men/women) units/week (as self-reported by questionnaire)
  • They did not have any known underlying medical condition that could affect the results

 

From the population satisfying these criteria, a total sub-sample of 127 workers were randomly selected for blood testing, 37 from paint manufacturing, 27 from resins, 31 from dry cleaning and 32 from the plasticizer manufacturing.   

 

In the Minitab worksheet the results of the study are shown in 6 columns of data.

 

C1 – A worker ID, identifying the industry and the individual (3 digit number)

C2 – The industry in which the employee worked

C3 – Length of service of each employee in the sector (in years)

C4 – Age of each employee (in years)

C5 – The LDH assay result – LDH-5:LDH-1 ratio

C6 – The gender of each worker

 

Your task

 

You a required to produce a coherent, concise, well presented and well-structured report which informs the HSE whether or not there is genuine evidence of difference in the potential health hazard between workers at the different industries – as indicated by the LDH-5:LDH-1 ratio.

 

Further, you are required to report on whether there is any association between worker length of service in the industry and the potential damage to their health. In concluding the report you cannot assume that the HSE understands statistical methods in detail and you will therefore have to summarise your findings in plain non-technical language. The length of the report should be no longer than 7 pages or 2500 words. The word count excludes the cover sheet, table content, figure captions and references.

 

You are expected to:

 

  • introduce the type of question you are facing including hypothesis testing
  • produce appropriate descriptive/graphical summaries of the data
  • justify your choice and undertake the correct statistical tests
  • interpret any p-values and confidence intervals and correlation co-efficients correctly
  • arrive at brief and clear conclusions that directly answer the problem

 

  • you are free to explore and will be credited for any further analyses of the data you deem worthy of investigation
  • finally, are the HSE asking exactly the right questions – have potential confounding variables been adequately considered? Is this a well-designed study?

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