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CDC = Center for Disease Control DEA = Drug Enforcement Agency NIH = National Institute of Health NCHS = National Center for Health Statistics NIDA = National Institute on Drug Abuse IMS America = commercial source of drug use statistics... 

The physical growth scales used are those published by the National Center for Health Statistics percentiles which are based upon the work of Lubchenco et al. in 1966. The infant s weight, height, and head circumference were adjusted for sex and corrected for prematurity. 

The National Center for Health Statistics estimates that 15.8 million Americans have signs and symptoms of OA. The true extent of the disease is much larger nearly everyone has radiographic evidence of OA by the eighth decade of life, but individuals without symptoms often go undiagnosed. Approximately 6% of United States adults have daily symptomatic knee OA, and 3% report daily symptoms affecting the hip.2 After age 60, 10% to 15% of persons report such symptoms. 

Prevalence of overweight among children and adolescents United States, 1999-2002. National Center for Health Statistics, December 2004 available at www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/ p ubd/hestats/obese/obse99. 

National Center for Health Statistics. Health USA 1994. Hyattsville.MD. Public Health Service, 1995. 

Daumit et al. (2003) conducted a series of cross-sectional analyses of outpatient physician visits from 1992-2000 where antipsychotics were prescribed. The data was collected from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. African Americans had half the odds of receiving an SGA and Hispanics had 40% of the odds, compared with Whites in the early 1990s. During 1998-2000, the frequency of SGA use for non-psychotic disorders in African Americans was equivalent to Whites but still 25% lower when patients were receiving treatment for a psychotic disorder. The use of SGAs in Hispanics increased and was equal to that of Whites in the late 1990s for all psychiatric diagnoses. 

Fig. 6 Age-adjusted death rates in the United States from all causes by sex and by race (white and all others), 1940-1996. (Courtesy of National Center for Health Statistics.)...

S. N. Schappert and C. Nelson, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 1995-96 Summary, National Center for Health Statistics, Vital Health Stat., 13(142) (1999). 

Woodwell, D.A., and Cherry, D.K., National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey 2002 Summary. Advance Data from Vital and Health Statistics National Center for Health Statistics, Number 346, August 26, 2004. 

Vital Statistics USA, (1969-1982) Vol. II, Mortality, Part A, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, PHS, National Center for Health Statistics, Washington, D.C. 

Mestres J. (2004) Computational chemogenomic approaches to systematic knowledge-based drug discovery. Curr. Top. Drug Discov. Dev. 7 304—313. National Center for Health Statistics (2005) The International classification of diseases, 9th revision, chnical modification. 1CD-9-CM, 6th ed. http //www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd9.htm. 

Wright, J. D., Wang, C. Y., Kennedy-Stephenson, J., and Ervin, R. B. (2003). Dietary intake of ten key nutrients for public health. United States 1990-2000. Advanced data from vital and health statistics, no. 334. Hyattsville, Maryland National Center for Health Statistics,. 

Source National Center for Health Statistics, available online at URL http //www.kidsandguns. org/study/states deaths.asp National. 

The Division of Health Interview Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC conducted a survey entitled Utilization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by United States Adults in 1999. The survey attempted to obtain a representative sample of minorities and also patients without telephones. This is important because these demographic groups tend to report lower utilization of botanicals products than Caucasians and those of higher socioeconomic status. The CDC found that 9.6% of the population took botanical medicines. Hispanics reported the lowest use of CAM followed by African-Americans, and then Caucasians 19.9%, 24.1%, and 30.8%i, respectively. The western part of the United States reported the highest use of CAM (15). 

The popularity of botanical products in the United States is reflected in a survey on complementary and alternative medicine that showed that American consumers had spent an estimated 5.1 billion on botanical products in 1997 (1). In the same year, the global market for botanical medicinal products was estimated to be approximately 20 billion (2,3). It has been estimated that currently more than 1500 botanical products are available in the U.S. market alone (4). This popularity has been fueled, in part, by the perception that botanicals are naturally derived products, and hence are safe and devoid of adverse effects. This perception appeared to be justified by a paper summarizing the fatality of pharmaceutical drugs and botanical products in the 1981-1993 period, in which statistics compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics, the American Association of Poison Control Centers, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission showed an annual mortality rate of 100,000 deaths... 

Health, United States, 2007, With Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans, C.f.D.C.a. Prevention. CDC National Center for Health Statistics Press 567, 2007. 

National Center for Health Statistics, Cbartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans. Hyattsville, Md. National Center for Health Statistics, 2007, Table 96. Also available online. URL http //www.cdc.gOv/nchs/data/hus/hus07.pdl 096. Posted November 2007. These are the most recent figures available. More recent figures no doubt would show higher usage. 

National Center for Health Statistics, Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans, Table 96. 

Abraham. S., Johnson, C. L. and Carroll, M. D. 1977. A comparison of levels of serum cholesterol of adults 18-74 years of age in the United States in 1960-62 and 1971-74. Advance data No. 5. Vital and Health Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Md. 

Carroll, M. D., Abraham, S. and Dresser, C. M. 1983. Dietary intake source data United States, 1976-80. Data from the National Health Survey. Series II, No. 231, DHHS Pub. No. (PHS) 83-1681. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Md. 

Vital and Health Statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics. 1979. Overweight adults in the United States. Advance data. DHEW Pub. No. 79-1250. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C. 

SOURCES Analysis by the Lewin Group based on data from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (1993), Stinson, et al. (1993), National Center for Health Statistics (1996), and Rice, et al. (1990). ... 

The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), a national study conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that 40% of Americans had used a dietary supplement in the month before they were interviewed for the study. Although NHANES did not break down supplement use into specific subtypes, the data gives some interesting insights into the growing acceptance of dietary supplement products in America. 

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) report that cardiovascular-renal drugs (including diuretics, beta blockers, and calcium channel blockers) were the most frequently prescribed medications in the United States in 1999 (the most recent year for which data was available). In fact, the loop diuretic Lasix was the second most frequently prescribed medication overall, with more than 12.9 million prescriptions written. It was second only to the allergy drug Claritin. 

To address its task, the committee held four public sessions in which it heard presentations from officials of EPA s Office of Research and Development CDC s National Center for Environmental Health, National Center for Health Statistics, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health the Washington State Department of Health the International Life Sciences biomonitoring committee the American Chemistry Council Crop-Life America the Association of Public Health Laboratories Environmental Defense and academe. 

The National Health Survey Act of 1956 required the National Center for Health Statistics to begin collecting health statistics on the general U.S. population. The first health surveys were conducted from 1960 to 1962 on a small sample of the population 18-74 years old with additional surveys conducted on children, 6-17 years old (NRC 1991). Subsequent surveys, called the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, included medical examinations and nutritional and dietary information on the study population. 

NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics). 1985. Plan and Operation for the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1982-84. Vital and Health Statistics Series 1, No. 19. DHHS (PHS) 85-1321. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyatts ville, MD. September 1985 [online]. Available http //www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr 01/sr01 019.pdf [accessed June 3, 2005]. 

Figure 1.4 Probability of 50-year-olds living to 90 years of age, 1900-2002. Computed from U.S. life tables 2002. (Source Arias, E., National Vital Statistics Reports, 53(6). Hyattsville, MD. National Center for Health Statistics, 2004.)...

Branym, A.M. and Lukacs, S.L. 2008. Food allergy among U.S. children Trends in prevalence and hospitalizations. NCHS data brief no. 10. Hyattsville, MD National Center for Health Statistics, (http //www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db010.pdf)... 

Sources American Cancer Society, Institute of Medicine, National Transportation Safety Board, and National Center for Health Statistics. 

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