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.