OBJECTIVE To evaluate the nutritional status, absorption and tolerance of lactose and the occurrence of small-bowel bacterial overgrowth. METHODS A cross-sectional study including all 264 Terena Indian children younger than 10 years from two tribes (Limão Verde and Córrego Seco) in Mato Grosso do Sul. The nutritional status was assessed based upon weight and height, using NCHS data as referen...

Objective: To analyze the risk factors associated to overweight and obesity in freshmen of a public university in the Center-West region of Brazil. Methods: A case-control study comprising 1,465 adolescents, identifying 106 cases (Body Mass Index (BMI) > = 85 percentile of National Center for Health Statistics -NCHS) and 233 controls (BMI > 5 and < 85 percentile of NCHS). Interviews were made t...

1. Kost K, Henshaw S. U.S. teenage pregnancies, births and abortions, 2010: national and state trends by age, race and ethnicity. New York: Guttmacher Institute, May 2014 (https:/ / www .guttmacher .org/ pubs/ USTPtrends10 .pdf). 2. Branum AM, Jones J. Trends in longacting reversible contraception use among U.S. women aged 15–44. NCHS Data Brief No. 188. Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and...

Growth charts such as those published by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) consist of a set of smoothed percentile curves showing the distribution of different aspects of body size for infants, children, and adolescents. The original NCHS growth charts are currently being revised to incorporate additional national data, to include growth curves for body mass index (BMI, in kg/m2)...

Long-term care services include a broad range of services that meet the needs of frail older people and other adults with functional limitations. Long-Term care services provided by paid, regulated providers are a significant component of personal health care spending in the United States. This report presents descriptive results from the first wave of the National Study of Long-Term Care Provi...

This report presents information from the national linked birth and infant death data set for the birth cohort of 1985, a new National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) resource for studying infant mortality. In the linked tile, birth certificates for infants born in 1985 who died before their first birthday are linked to death certificates for the same infants, thereby making available for a...

Age-adjusted death rates are routine mortality risk measures used to compare rates over time or between groups such as those living in different geographic areas. This type of measure eliminates differences that would be caused because one population is older than another. Beginning with mortality data for 1999, the standard population used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Na...

The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, a research and development division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). maintains a digital archive of 17,000 cervical and lumbar spine images collected in the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II) conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Classification of the images for the...

OBJECTIVE To assess the nutritional status of adolescent girls in a slum community of Urban Health Center, Panangal. METHODS A community-based cross-sectional study was carried out over a period of two months. 223 adolescent girls of age 10-18 years were selected randomly. Data was collected by interviewing the adolescent girls using predesigned, pre tested, semi-structured schedule. Parents ...

AIM To determine the timing of growth faltering among under 3 year old children. METHODS Prospective population based cohort study in Lungwena, rural Malawi, southeast Africa. A total of 767 live born babies were regularly visited from birth until 3 years of age. Weight, height, and mid upper arm circumference were measured at monthly intervals until 18 months and at three month intervals the...