A nurse practitioner is working in a crowded neighborhood where the population is primarily immigrants from China. The nurse has designed a research study to follow children from kindergarten to the age of 25. She is going to be looking at their diet, successful progression in school, health practices, and development of disease, to name a few items. This type of research is known as
A) cohort study.
B) cross-sectional study.
C) case-control study.
D) epidemiological study.

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In this cohort study, a group of people who were born at approximately the same time or share some characteristics of interest is the focus of the research. This study does not possess the characteristics of a case-control or cross-sectional study, and epidemiological study is not an existing methodology.

A Nurse Practitioner Is Working in a Crowded Neighborhood Where