What this does, when you use relative risk you take some group of the population and you establish their risk as--at one.

当运用相对危险度这个概念时,要选定一个群组,并把这个群组的风险设为1

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This particular study was a prospective cohort.

这个研究是前瞻性群组研究

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You just say that arbitrarily this group, the reference group, let's say the group with the lowest weights, or the lowest cholesterol or anything, you say their risk is one, and then you look to see how everybody else's risk is compared to that.

可以随意地设定一个群组,作为参照组,我们可以假设是体重最低的一组,或者胆固醇水平最低的一组或者其他,将参照组的风险设为1,然后就可以比较参照组与其他组的风险

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What they do in this study is they took this cohort of a hundred thousand nurses and then have followed them repeatedly over the years, with very careful assessments of diet, health status, and other things, and countless papers, important papers have been published from this particular cohort.

在研究过程中,他们以十万名护士为研究群组,很长一段时间内定期追踪她们的信息,包括关于饮食健康状况等的详细评估,同时还不断刊发基于这一研究群组,的重要论文

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