Women’s Health Initiative (WHI)

Epidemiology

Instruction: Choose one of the Studies below and Answer the Question that follow.
There have been four major cohort studies that have investigated women’s health:
· Nurses’ Health Study (NHS)
· Women’s Health Initiative (WHI)
· Study of Osteoporotic Fractures
· Iowa Women’s Health Study
For your initial post this week, choose one of the four studies (links above). Write a brief synopsis of the study design, discussing if it was a concurrent or retrospective study.