Miguel Alcubierre, Werner Benger, Bernd Brügmann, Gerd Lanfermann, Lars Nerger, Edward Seidel, and Ryoji Takahashi (1) Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Golm, Germany (2) Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin, Takustrasse 7, D-14195 Berlin, Germany (3) National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana,...

OBJECTIVE To provide growth reference values in body height, to determine the specific age at peak height velocity for Saudi male and female adolescences aged 9-18 years and to evaluate the appropriateness of using the Centers for Disease Control/National Center for Health Statistics (CDC/NCHS) growth standards in body height for the assessment of Saudi adolescents. METHODS A cross-sectional ...

Intensive efforts by practicing physicians and public health workers to identify and treat persons with hypertension have been underway for many years. In this report, changes in blood pressure levels in the United States are assessed based on nationally representative health (and nutrition) examination surveys conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics in 1960 to 1962, 1971 to 1974...

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) conducts a variety of surveys designed to provide cross-sectional estimates of the prevalence of various factors measuring the health of Americans. When these cross-sectional estimates are put together and plotted over time, they provide a picture of the trends in the health of the population. However, differences in methodology, completeness of ...

The goal of this study was to investigate the relation of birth order to relative weight and prevalence of obesity in a group of 13-15 years old girls. In 1997, 1458 girls were examined. The height and weight measured by trained staff were recorded. Family size and birth order were obtained by a questionnaire. For the purpose of the present study, 776 and 250 girls coming from two- and three-ch...

Miguel Alcubierre, Gabrielle Allen, Bernd Brügmann, Gerd Lanfermann, Edward Seidel, Wai-Mo Suen, and Malcolm Tobias (1) Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Schlaatzweg 1, 14473 Potsdam, Germany (2) National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801 (3) Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130 (4) Physics Dep...

Introduction An expert working group meeting was convened by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) on September 8-9, 2004 to discuss how best to measure injury severity based on information typically available in administrative datasets. The term ‘administrative dataset’ is used to differentiate it from a trauma registry dataset. While administrative data are used primarily for billi...

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...

Background The prevalence of celiac disease (CD) is remarkably varied in Down syndrome(DS)patientscompared with other diseases.  This study aimed to assess celiac disease prevalence in Down syndrome children with and without congenital heart defects (CHD) and its comparison with controls. Materials and Methods This case-control study was performed at a single center on 132 participants in three...