background: reference charts are widely used in healthcare as a screening tool. this study aimed to produce reference growth charts for school children from west malaysia in comparison with the united states centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) chart. methods: a total of 14,360 school children ranging from 7 to 17 years old from six states in west malaysia were collected. a two-stag...

Epidemiology Suicide is the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, and more than 30,000 people in the United States kill themselves every year (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] 2000). For every two victims of homicide in the United States, there are three people who take their own lives (CDC 2000). Highlighting the seriousness of working with suicidal patients in th...

Tobacco use continues to be the leading cause of death and disease in the United States; more than 440,000 people in this country die of tobacco-related diseases each year (CDC 2002a). Fortunately, cessation of tobacco use can reduce the risk of tobacco-related disease, even among those who have used tobacco for decades (USDHHS 2000a, USDHHS 2000b, Peto et al. 2000, Taylor et al. 2002). Cessati...

OBJECTIVES In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new set of childhood growth charts for the United States. These charts included a set of smoothed percentiles along with LMS (lambda-mu-sigma) parameters to allow the calculation of other percentiles or standard deviation scores. These parameters resemble the LMS parameters derived using Cole's LMS method. Simil...

We aimed to evaluate the classification of arm circumference (AC) in pre-school children by using National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS/CDC-2000) and World Health Organization (WHO-2006) references. We evaluated 205 children: weight, height and AC were assessed and the body mass index (BMI) was calculated. The BMI values were classified into Z-scores by the WHO referential. The AC was cla...

OBJECTIVE to generate a translated and validated version of the Clavien-Dindo Classification of Surgical Complications (CDC) to Brazilian Portuguese (CDC-BR). METHODS the process of translation and adaptation followed the guideline of Beaton et al., 2000. We divided 76 participating surgeons, in different levels of experience, from the Department Surgery of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto A...

As Delaware's adult obesity crisis continues to be a leading public health concern, we evaluated Delaware's 1999-2014 vital records to examine the association between obesity and mortality. We used the Delaware population death records from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) WONDER database and the Delaware Health Statistics Center (DHSC). Together with the vital records, we i...