147 INTRODUCTION Childhood obesity has become a serious public health problem. The prevalence of overweight and obese children is an increasing trend all over the world. Obesity can be assessed based on triceps skin fold and Body Mass Index (BMI). BMI is widely acceptable around the world because it is easily calculated based on weight and height. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS...

Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The series of reports on Aging trends was developed with support from the National Institute on Aging and its purpose is to monitor the health of the aging population. By providing this type of information, we hope to help focus research on the most effective ways to use resources and craft health policy to promote longer, healthier...

An 8-year-old boy was admitted with slowly progressive distension of abdomen and fullness in upper abdomen of 9 months duration, and history of minor episodes of epistaxis for 7 months. There was no history of pain abdomen, jaundice, hematemesis, malena or any skin bleeds or hyperpigmentation. No umbilical catheterisation was done in the neonatal period. On tracing the pedigree no other family ...

We assessed the prevalence of childhood acute malnutrition and under-five mortality rate (U5MR) in Darbhanga district, India, using a two-stage 49-cluster household survey. A total of 1379 households comprising 8473 people were interviewed. During a 90-day recall period, U5MR was 0.5 [95% confidence interval (CI), 0.2-1.4] per 10,000 per day. The prevalence of global acute malnutrition among 14...

The GEMs are the product of a coordinated effort spanning several years and involving the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), AHIMA, the American Hospital Association, and 3M Health Information Systems. The GEM files are a public domain reference mapping designed to give all sectors of the healthcare industry that use coded data a ...

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...

OBJECTIVES To examine dietary pattern and nutritional status of adolescent college girls of Dhaka, Bangladesh with a particular focus on the prevalence of anaemia and appropriate knowledge about it among them. METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted. Sixty-five adolescent girls aged 15-19 years were selected randomly from Home Economics college of Dhaka. A 7-day food frequency questionn...