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Nun Study

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Nun Study
Gynaecology An exhaustive epidemiological study by F. Gagnon based on 3,280 Canadian nuns, which found no cancers of the uterine cervix, confirming Rigoni-Stern’s 1842 observation that cervical cancer is linked to sexual activity.

Neurology A study in which linguistic ability in early life and cognitive function and Alzheimer’s disease in late life were compared in a religious order—the School Sisters of Notre Dame
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Tyas and her colleagues used the ongoing Nun Study as the basis of their analysis.
Early linguistic ability may stall later dementia by Sullivan, Michele G. / Clinical Psychiatry News
Participants had been enrolled into the Nun Study - an ongoing health investigation involving Roman Catholic nuns in the US.
Winning words by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Early life linguistic ability, late life cognitive function, and neuropathology: Findings from the Nun Study [Electronic version].
State of the journal by Gutman, Sharon A. / AJOT: American Journal of Occupational Therapy
 
 
 
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