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...

PROBLEM/CONDITION CDC began abortion surveillance in 1969 to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions. REPORTING PERIOD COVERED This report summarizes and describes data reported to CDC regarding legal induced abortions obtained in the United States in 2000. DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM For each year since 1969, CDC has compiled abortion data by state or a...

Recurrent famine has been a major cause of mortality in the Horn of Africa. In Ethiopia, three consecutive years of drought led to widespread loss of livestock, population displacement, and malnutrition, placing an estimated 10 million persons at risk for starvation in 2000. A large proportion of the population of the Gode district in Somali region was displaced in a search for food and food ai...

This report is an analysis of results provided to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by laboratories participating in the Model Performance Evaluation Program (MPEP) after they tested the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) performance evaluation samples shipped to them in January 2000. Testing results were reported by 800 (89.7%) of 892 laboratories that received samp...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to compare the prevalence of overweight and obesity according to three growth curves, created by the World Health Organization (WHO/2006), by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS/1977), and by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC/2000) in children with cardiovascular risk factors. METHODS Data from 118 children and adolescents, aged between ...

BACKGROUND Peru is experiencing a stage of nutritional transition where the principal characteristics are typical of countries undergoing development. OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were the following: (a) compare physical growth patterns with an international standard; (b) determine biological age; and (c) analyze the double nutritional burden of adolescents living at a moderate alt...

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a major cause of pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, and infertility, and it can facilitate human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission. Emergence of gonococcal resistance to penicillin and tetracycline occurred during the 1970s and became widespread during the early 1980s. More recently, resistance to fluoroquinolones developed. Resistance was documente...

BACKGROUND From 2000-2002, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded a study that was designed to improve the information available to program planners about the geographic distribution of CDC-funded HIV prevention services provided by community-based organizations (CBOs). Program managers at CDC recognized the potential of a geographic information system (GIS) to organize and...

BACKGROUND The number of reported cases of Legionnaires' disease, a severe pneumonia caused by the bacterium Legionella, is increasing in the United States. During 2000-2014, the rate of reported legionellosis cases increased from 0.42 to 1.62 per 100 000 persons; 4% of reported cases were outbreak-associated. Legionella is transmitted through aerosolization of contaminated water. A new industr...