Word: cohorts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...energetic audience surrogate, might have suited Jim Carrey or Vince Vaughn, so go with Bradley Cooper, who was Carrey's pal in Yes Man and Vaughn's preppie torturer in Wedding Crashers. Steve Carell would have been perfect for Stu, the amiable, henpecked dentist; but Ed Helms, Carell's cohort on The Daily Show and The Office, costs so much less. Now for Alan, the roly-poly cute guy with a surfeit of energy and a sociopathic streak: can't afford Jack Black, give stand-up comic Zach Galifianakis a chance. OK, we got ourselves a movie...
...Cohort studies have proved crucial in understanding non-communicable diseases in the US. A primary example of the public health impact of cohorts is knowledge about the heart-clogging effects of trans fat, something common in processed foods. Information gleaned in part from Harvard cohorts led to mandatory trans fat food labeling in 2006, and its subsequent ban from restaurants in New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Cambridge and California...
...regional disparity in cohort research is enormous. Taking into account population, cohort studies of Africans have produced a tiny fraction of medical research articles compared to wealthier areas. For every one article on high blood pressure published on Africans, 9 are published on Europeans, and 50 are published on people from the US. Disparity in the actual numbers of adults enrolled in cohorts is even worse. Taking into account population, we estimate that for every African enrolled in a cohort study, there are 190 Europeans and 1,000 Americans enrolled in cohorts. We do not doubt that smoking, obesity, high...
...believe that large cohort studies are a proven design that will serve African public health, and could also yield information relevant to the chronic disease epidemic in the US. The bold African Cohort Initiative aspires to fill this knowledge gap, and seeks equally visionary funders to bring studies that have enormously benefited wealthy countries to Africa. The time for action is now, before the problem escalates, so that results can guide successful prevention programs...
...successful comp for The Crimson, each new editor in my cohort was asked to name his or her politics for recording in a great book that no non-editor would ever be allowed to see. Amid a litany of “Democrat,” “Republican” and the occasional “democratic socialist,” my answer stood out for its confession of the shared reason that we were all together at Harvard and in the upper room of 14 Plympton Street: “intellectual elitism.” That moment...