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prospective cohort is a study that follows a group of individuals over time to observe and analyze certain outcomes or factors. It looks forward and tracks people from the present into the future to see how events or characteristics might impact their health or well-being.
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The incorporation of fecal sample collections
into prospective cohort studies requires the development of standardized protocols that can be used in the field.
We observed a robust inverse association between fruit and vegetable intake and long - term weight change in three
large prospective cohorts of American adults.
SurgiCal Obesity Treatment Study (SCOTS): protocol for a
national prospective cohort study of patients undergoing bariatric surgery in Scotland
The literature that does exist on the role of physical activity in the prevention of MM is inconclusive and much more epidemiological research is needed in this area using larger samples and
prospective cohort designs.
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recent prospective cohort study confirms a positive association between BMI and heart failure risk among men, but suggests a J - shaped association among women with T2DM (304).
Previously Bao and her colleagues observed an association between increased nut consumption and reduced risk of major chronic diseases and even death, but
few prospective cohort studies had examined the link between nut intake and inflammation.
The current meta - analysis summarizes
available prospective cohort studies and examines whether depression is predictive of the development of overweight and obesity and, in turn, whether overweight and obesity are predictive of the development of depression.
The review authors stated, «Several large
scale prospective cohort studies found positive correlation between artificial sweetener use and weight gain.»
Now, the first
prospective cohort examining the relationship between HPV vaccination and fertility, led by a Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researcher, has found that the vaccine can actually improve chances of conception in some women.
Given the paucity of prospec - tive cohort studies in this area,
more prospective cohort studies that directly assess the relationship between dietary pulses and the incidence of vari - ous cardiometabolic diseases are needed to increase our understanding of the role of dietary pulses in the primary prevention of diabetes, CHD, and stroke.
A more formal study that did evaluate the effects of a ketogenic diet confirmed the efficacy of carbohydrate restriction: in a
small prospective cohort, obese subjects began a ketogenic diet after undergoing a 24 - hour esophageal pH probe test (which measures the pH of the esophagus).
Data from a total of 62,779 participants and 23,949 all - cause mortality cases were analyzed in 8
observational prospective cohort studies, with milk as the main exposure.
As part of a
Dutch prospective cohort study (2007 — 2011), we compared medical indications during pregnancy and birth outcomes of 576 women who initially preferred a home birth (n = 226), a midwife - led hospital birth (n = 168) or an obstetrician - led hospital birth (n = 182).
Potential subjects for the breastfeeding study were selected from an
existing prospective cohort of fluoxetine - exposed pregnant women who previously had been enrolled in the California Teratogen Information Service (CTIS) pregnancy outcome study.
Perinatal and maternal outcomes by planned place of birth for healthy women with low risk pregnancies: the Birthplace in England national
prospective cohort study.BMJ.
The study was conducted within the framework of the Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra (SUN) Project, a long -
term prospective cohort study in more than 22 500 Spanish university graduates which started in 1999.
Drs. Lee Schaefer and Jonathan McGavock, along with colleagues at the University of Alberta, studied 306 youths (9 - 17 years of age) enrolled in the Healthy
Hearts Prospective Cohort Study of Physical Activity and Cardiometabolic Health.
In the new study, researchers calculated genetic scores from over 30 genes for more than 3000 children with no family history of type 1 diabetes but with gene variants known to convey type 1 diabetes risk and who participated in the
TEDDY prospective cohort study.
The team of researchers, including Ben - Gurion University of the Negev (BGU Prof. Danit R. Shahar RD, Ph.D, analyzed an NIH /
NIA prospective cohort study [Health ABC] conducted over eight years in the U.S. to measure the effects of adherence to a Mediterranean diet.
But now, in the last few years, there have been
several prospective cohort studies (involving a total of nearly 10,000 women) that have found that eating whole soy foods does not increase breast cancer risk, nor aggravate existing breast cancer, nor increase its recurrence.
In 2010, a Chinese case - control study12 and a small
US prospective cohort study13 did not find any association between caffeine consumption and the risk of miscarriage.
Dietary n - 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and the aetiology of ulcerative colitis: a
UK prospective cohort study.
Linoleic acid, a dietary n - 6 polyunsaturated fatty acid, and the aetiology of ulcerative colitis: a nested case - control study within a
European prospective cohort study.
Methods and analysis The Mothers of Rotterdam study is a
pragmatic prospective cohort study planning to include 1200 highly vulnerable pregnant women for the comparison between targeted social care and care as usual.
This study investigated the buffering effects of psychological well - being on the relationships between cognitive vulnerabilities (fear of anxiety and negative beliefs about worry) and GAD symptoms among 297 Japanese undergraduates (female = 62 %, age = 18.91 ± 1.61) in a two -
wave prospective cohort study.
Twelve -
month prospective cohort study of patients with severe traumatic brain injury and their relatives: Coping, satisfaction with life and neurological functioning.
The authors say: «In these 3
large prospective cohorts with more than 1.6 million person - years of follow - up, we observed that increasing coffee, but not tea, intake over a 4 - year period was associated with a lower type 2 diabetes risk in the next 4 years.
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