Objectives: COVID-19 pandemic has shown a substantial impact on the entire world both physiologically and psychologically. By hit of second wave, which opened dangerous gates for secondary infections, apprehension was carried among health-care sectors. These infections were due to decreased immunity. On other hand, risk modifiers, such as diabetes hypertension played leading role in mortality r...

OBJECTIVES The National Survey of Early Childhood Health (NSECH) is a new survey that was designed to provide nationally representative data on the health and development of children and to fill an information gap in the pediatric literature on parents' views of the delivery of health care to their young children. DESIGN The selection of topics was guided by previous studies conducted to exam...

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS — Using data from the 1999–2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 998 adults aged 18 years with self-reported diabetes were identified. The proportion of adults with diabetes meeting ADA recommendations for HbA 1c (A1C), HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, blood pressure, renal function, nutrient intake, smoking, pneumococcal vaccination,...

Births to women living in the United States are tracked throughout the year by the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), which is overseen by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). While the NVSS provides administrative counts of births in the United States and basic characteristics of the mothers such as age, race, and marital status, other characteristics of the mother may provi...

Micronutrients play a pivotal role in achieving and maintaining optimum health across all life stages. Much of the U.S. population fails to meet Estimated Average Requirements (EARs) for key nutrients. This analysis aims to assess the contribution of fortified ready-to-eat cereals (RTEC) to micronutrient intake for U.S. residents aged 2-18, 19-99, and 2-99 years of age according to National Hea...

In the age of digital technology, as teens seem to be constantly connected online, via social media, and through mobile applications, it is no surprise that they increasingly turn to digital media to answer their health questions. This study is the first of its kind to survey a large, nationally-representative sample of teens to investigate how they use the newest digital technologies, includin...