Obesity prevalence varies by income and education level, although patterns might differ among adults and youths (1-3). Previous analyses of national data showed that the prevalence of childhood obesity by income and education of household head varied across race/Hispanic origin groups (4). CDC analyzed 2011-2014 data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to obtain e...

This report presents national anthropometric reference data based on health examination survey results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 1999-2002, for all ages of the U.S. population. Weighted population means, standard errors of the means, and selected percentiles are presented for the total U.S. population by sex, race or ethnic group, and age in years or ag...

In the United States today, we know a great deal about the burden of high blood pressure (BP) and the inadequacy of its prevention and control at the national level.1 The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), created through authorizing legislation of the National Health Survey Act of 1956, collects directly measured and selfreported data relevant to biological risk factors...

The purpose of this research was to investigate the associations between misperception of body weight and sociodemographic factors such as food stamp participation status, income, education, and race/ethnicity. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data from 1999-2004 and multivariate logistic regression are used to estimate how sociodemographic factors are associated with (...

Although the prevalence of chronic HCV is lower in children than adults, an estimated 5 million children worldwide have active HCV infection (Gower, 2014). Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) collected between 2003 and 2010 indicates that 0.2% of 6to 11-year-olds (31,000 children) and 0.4% of 12to 19-year-olds (101,000 adolescents) in the US are chronically i...

This report presents a detailed description of the sample design for the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-94, including a brief description of research that led to the choice of the final design. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is one of the major surveys of the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control. Informat...

It is possible to use different methods to weight National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data. Typically when weighting NHANES data we use a weighting class approach of predefined cells based on a limited number of variables. However, there are model based alternatives that allow for more flexibility in calculating the statistical weights. This flexibility is important becaus...

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OBJECTIVE This study is a descriptive investigation of trends in BMI in the USA over time, across race/ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status (SES) groups, and across different datasets. METHODS The study analyzes micro-level data from three widely used cross-sectional US health datasets: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the National Health Interview Survey ...