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Advantages of cohort studies

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These include:

  • true measurement of incidence
  • longitudinal observation, which results in more robust data
  • the assessment of the risk factor is unbiased by the presence of the disease
  • information about the effect of changing a risk factor may be changed
  • information given by the subjects and the measurements are not subject to bias

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