[Book Review] The best-studied people on the planet
Thursday, June 23, 2016 - 13:01
in Health & Medicine
Cohort studies, the empirical longitudinal research of people with a common characteristic, have played a crucial role in enhancing medical care and have dramatically reduced the risk of early death by revealing potential risk factors and unanticipated dangers. In The Life Project, Helen Pearson explores the world's oldest and longest running birth cohort study, which has tracked the lives of five generations of Britons for seven decades. Author: Alireza Salehi Nejad