A cohort study means you take the same group of people and follow them every five years for that period of time.

定群研究意味着你只有一组研究对象,然后在研究期间每五年进行一次记录数据

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The Framingham Study was perfect for that because you had these bi-annual assessments.

弗明汉研究数据对我们的研究很有帮助,除了每两年一次的评估数据

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Now I'm putting count in double quotes, not to make it a string, but to say, this is count generically. It could be counting one by one through the integers, it could also be taking a collection of data and going through them one by one. It could be doing counting in some other mechanism.

现在我把count用双引号标起来，不是说把它命名为一个字符串，而是说，这是一个通用的计数器,它可能是每一次减1的整数,也可能是拿一个集合的数据然后,一个一个的访问它们,也可能是以某种机制来计数。

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