A
cohort study is a research method that follows a group or "cohort" of individuals over a period of time to observe their behaviors, experiences, or outcomes. It helps researchers understand how factors or variables may be linked to certain effects or conditions in the group being studied.
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The study adds to the body of large
cohort studies of planned home births that have reported on the relative safety of home versus hospital births.
Of particular interest were the prospective longitudinal
cohort studies in which mothers were recruited during their pregnancy or postpartum period, and the children were assessed at regular intervals.
The prospective
birth cohort study examined the effects of low - dose chemical exposure in 164 pregnant women.
Breastfeeding is associated with improved child cognitive development: A population
based cohort study.
The two new systematic literature reviews also describe recently published results from several mother and
child cohort studies linking organic milk and dairy product consumption to a reduced risk of certain diseases.
A birth
cohort study with women (mothers) recruited early in pregnancy and followed for 21 years.
The long - term effects of breastfeeding on child and adolescent mental health: a
pregnancy cohort study followed for 14 years.
The initiative will also launch a
new cohort study of 200 patients and 200 controls recruited from centers around the country.
A large
cohort study focusing on teachers may improve power to identify the risk factors for these disorders.
Design
A cohort study was performed with 201 high school girls recruited to participate in an evaluation study of a school - based obesity prevention physical education program.
Studies of home versus hospital birth are typically the less
reliable cohort study, where women who chose one option or the other but have otherwise similar characteristics are compared.
There is also no data available on the reproductive function of the descendants of cancer survivors; hence the importance of
continuing cohort studies over multiple generations.
Until now, most prediction scores were developed using a
single cohort study and were never validated for accuracy in national populations for low - and middle - income countries.
Methods: We used existing data collected by a prospective, closed -
panel cohort study of aging and oral health in adult men.
Future research could involve secondary analyses of Australian national datasets and prospective longitudinal studies,
primary cohort studies, and well controlled intervention studies.
Childhood ADHD is strongly associated with a broad range of psychiatric disorders during adolescence: a population - based
birth cohort study.
It is also the first
large cohort study to examine associations between air pollution and HDL particle number, he added.
We encourage those in the process of designing
new cohort studies to allow for future investigation of such longitudinal associations.
We used longitudinal data from the UK
Millennium Cohort Study for children born in 2000 — 2001, divided into three separate analysis periods: ages 9 months to 3 years, 3 to 5 years, and 5 to 7 years.
Researchers conducted a nationwide, population - based long - term
observational cohort study using the Swedish Multi-Generation Register to monitor the risk of nonceliac autoimmune disease, which includes Crohn's disease, type 1 diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and ulcerative colitis.
The population - based retrospective
cohort study used insurance records from Ontario to analyze the rate of diabetes cases among nearly 643,000 women who delivered their first child between April 2000 and March 2010.
Association between breastfeeding and intelligence, educational attainment, and income at 30 years of age: a prospective birth
cohort study from Brazil.
This Finnish
nationwide cohort study examines the comparative effectiveness of pharmacologic treatments in the prevention of rehospitalization in a nationwide cohort of patients with bipolar disorder.
The authors used data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a longitudinal birth
cohort study including nearly 5,000 children born between 1998 and 2000 in hospitals in 20 U.S. cities, to consider these dimensions of dynamic family structure together, asking whether they independently predict children's behavior problems at age 9.
A new population - based
cohort study published in The Lancet reports living close to heavy traffic was associated with a small, yet significant, increase in the incidence of dementia, but not Parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis.
A retrospective
cohort study on 2,505 Vizslas born between 1992 and 2008 was published in the February, 2014 journal of the American Veterinary medical Association.
Using HUNT, a Norwegian population - based
health cohort study based in a rural county with 130,000 residents, the Bristol Medical School team, with co-workers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, were able to see how mortality in the parents related to both their own BMI (the conventional approach) and to the BMI of their adult children.
For reporting of observational studies in epidemiology Checklist for cohort, case - control, and cross-sectional studies (combined) Checklist
for cohort studies Checklist for case - control studies Checklist for cross-sectional studies
Stabilisation of rampant caries: polyol gums and arrest of dentine caries in two long -
term cohort studies in young subjects.
MHRP's international research program has six clinical research sites in the U.S., Africa and Asia, where it conducts
HIV cohort studies, HIV vaccine trials and therapeutic studies.
However analysis of
cohort studies showed a significantly higher risk of low birth weight and preterm birth with anemia in the first or second trimester of pregnancy.
The population - based retrospective
cohort study examined health records for 2,566 women ages 15 and older who were diagnosed with PCOS during a hospital visit in Western Australia between 1997 and 2011.
When researchers looked at how much fiber 35,972 participants in the UK Women's
Cohort Study ate, they found a diet rich in fiber from whole grains, such as whole wheat, and fruit offered significant protection against breast cancer for pre-menopausal women.
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