Second National Health and Nutrition

Mahaffey KR, Annest JL. 1986. Association of erythrocyte protoporphyrin with blood lead level and iron status in the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1976-1980. Environ Res 41 327-338. 

Mahaffey KR, Gartside PS, Glueck CJ. 1986. Blood lead levels and dietary calcium intake in 1- to 11-year old children The Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1976 to 1980. Pediatrics 78 257-262. 

Mirex residues in human blood serum were measured as part of the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II), conducted between 1976 and 1980. Of the 4,038 samples analyzed, mirex concentrations ranged from not detectable to detected but below quantifiable levels (10 pig/L [ppb] (Stehr-Green 1989). 

Several government surveys reveal that calcium is one nutrient likely to be consumed in less than recommended amounts (i.e., 800 mg RDA for nonpregnant, nonlactating women) by a substantial percentage of Americans, particularly females 12 years of age and older (Car-roll et al. 1983 Heaney et al. 1982 Chinn 1981 USDA, SEA 1980 Radzikowski 1983). As shown in Figures 7.1 and 7.2, daily calcium intake values reported in the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1976-1980 (HANES II), have been plotted as a function of age for males and females, respectively, and are compared to the RDA. Although the RDA is the same for both sexes, it is clear... 

The considerably higher blood Pb levels in industrial populations reflect widespread environmental Pb pollution. However, data obtained from the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II) indicate that there has been a reduction in the overall mean blood-lead level of the U.S. population during the period 1976 through 1980 from 15.8 mg/dl to 10.0 mg/dl (Lin-Fu 1982). It is suggested that an increased use of unleaded gasoline by the U.S. population may be responsible for the observed decrease. 

Zhu S, Heo M, Plankey M, et al. Associations of body mass index and anthropometric indicators of fat mass and fat free mass with all-cause mortality among women in the first and second National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys follow-up studies. Ann Epidemiol 2003 13 286-293. 

A role for lead in hypertension gains further credence from epidemiologic studies of low-level lead exposure (i.e., exposure too low in intensity to produce the classic symptoms of acute lead poisoning). The Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey performed between 1976 and 1980 included blood lead and blood pressure measurements in almost... 

Dickinson et al. (1994) recently analyzed vitamin C status in nearly 13,500 people from the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey NHANES II database. Twenty-seven percent of these people were classified as supplement users. The mean serum vitamin C for nonsupplement users ages 20-59 years, 0.85 mg/100 ml, was about 40% below that noted for supplement users (1.36... 

Schwartz J and Weiss ST (1990) Dietary factors and their relation to respiratory symptoms. The Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Am J Epidemiol 132(l) 67-76... 

Gergen PJ, Tmkeltaub PC, Kovar MG. The prevalence of allergic skin test reactivity to eight common aeroallergens in the U.S. population results Irom the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. J Allergy Chn Immunol 1987 80 669-679. 

Gergen PJ, Turkeltaub PC. The association of individual allergen reactivity with respiratory disease in a national sample data from the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1976-80 (NHANES II). J Allergy Clin Immunol 1992 90(4 Pt l) 579-588. 

There have been several recent studies that have evaluated assoeiations between measures of lung function (forced vital capacity, FVC FEVi the first three-quarters of a second, FEV0.75 and peak expiratory flow, PEF) and partieulate pollution levels in the United States (Table 5). These studies inelude analysis of data from both the first and second National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES 1 and NHANES II 95,96), analysis of ehildren s lung function data from the Harvard Six-Cities Study (97), and analysis of children s limg function from 24 U.S. cities (98). The effects of air pollution on lung function were estimated after adjusting for individual differences in age, race, sex, height,... 

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