Study designLesson 15 of 40
Cohort Studies
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Prospective (usually): exposed vs unexposed followed for outcome. Measures incidence, RR. Good for rare exposures, multiple outcomes, temporal sequence. Weakness: slow, expensive, loss to follow-up, confounding, poor for rare outcomes. Retrospective cohort. Example: Framingham. Diagram: exposure→outcome timeline.
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