Third National Health and Nutrition

As part of the Third National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey (NHANES 111), the Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences Division of the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control, will be analyzing human blood samples for trichloroethylene and other volatile organic compounds. These data will give an indication of the frequency of occurrence and background levels of these compounds in the general population. 

Ford, E. S., Giles, W. H. 8c Dietz, W. H. (2002). Prevalence of metabolic syndrome among US adults findings from the third national health and nutrition examination survey. JAMA, 287, 356-9. 

Brody DJ, Pirkle JL, Kramer RA, et al. 1994. Blood lead levels in the US population. Phase 1 of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III, 1988 to 1991). J Am Med Assoc 272 277-283. 

Mares-Perlman, JA, Fisher, AI, Klein, R, Block, G, Millen, AE, and Wright, JD, 2001. Lutein and zeaxanthin in the diet and serum and their relation to age-related maculopathy in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Am J Epidemiol 153, 424-432. 

Beck TJ, Looker AC, Ruff CB, Sievanen H, Wahner HW (2000) Structural trends in the aging femoral neck and proximal shaft analysis of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry data. J Bone Miner Res 15 2297-2304... 

The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III, 1988-94) Reference Manuals and Reports, October 1996. 

Belin, R.M. et al., Smoke exposure is associated with a lower prevalence of serum thyroid autoantibodies and thyrotropin concentration elevation and a higher prevalence of mild thyrotropin concentration suppression in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab., 89, 6077, 2004. 

Hnizdo, E., Sullivan, P. A., Bang, K. I., and Wagner, G. (2002). Association between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and employment by industry and occupation in the US population A study of data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Am. J. Epidemiol. 156, 738-746. 

Ethylbenzene was measured in the blood of 631 non-occupationally exposed people in the United States (as a subset of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, at mean and median levels of 0.11 and 0.06 pg/L, respectively (Ashley et al., 1994). In an earlier study, the authors reported a mean ethylbenzene concentration of 0.12 pg/L in 13 blood samples (Ashley et al., 1992). 

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. 

Hypertension is the most common cardiovascular disease. Thus, the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), conducted from 1992 to 1994, found that 27% of the USA adult population had hypertension. The prevalence varies with age, race, education, and many other variables. Sustained arterial hypertension damages blood vessels in kidney, heart, and brain and leads to an increased incidence of renal failure, coronary disease, cardiac failure, and stroke. Effective pharmacologic lowering of blood pressure has been shown to prevent damage to blood vessels and to substantially reduce morbidity and mortality rates. Many effective drugs are available. Knowledge of their antihypertensive mechanisms and sites of action allows accurate prediction of efficacy and toxicity. As a result, rational use of these agents, alone or in combination, can lower blood pressure with minimal risk of serious toxicity in most patients. 

Arbes, S. Jr., Gergen, P., Elliott, L., and Zeldin, D. 2005. Prevalences of positive skin test responses to 10 common allergens in the US population Results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. J Allergy Clinical Immunol 116(2) 377-383. 

Wu T, Buck GM, Mendola P (2003) Blood lead levels and sexual maturation in U.S. giris The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-94. Environ Health Perspect, 111(5) 737-741. 

Hypertension is pervasive in people with diabetes. In the United States, the Third National Health and Nutrition Survey (NH ANES) found that 71 percent of all diabetic men and women had hypertension. Twenty-nine percent of them were unaware that they had elevated blood pressure. Forty-three percent were untreated. Even diabetics being treated had a blood pressure of more than 140/90. Only 12 percent in treatment had reached the goal of less than 130/80. 

Data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Survey (1988-94) have been used to analyse the possible effects of DTP or tetanus immunization on allergies and allergy-related sjmptoms among 13 944 infants, children, and adolescents aged 2 months to 16 years in the USA (6). The authors concluded that DTP or tetanus immunization increases the risk of allergies and related respiratory symptoms in children and adolescents. However, the small number of non-immunized individuals and the study design limited their abihty to make firm causal inferences about the true magnitude of effect. 

Nakagawara VB, Montgomery RW, Dillard A, McLin L, and Connor CW (2003) The effects of laser illumination on operational and visual performance of pilots conducting terminal operations. DOT/FAA/AM-03/12. Niskar A, Kieszak S, Holmes A, et al. (2002) Estimated prevalence of noise-induced hearing threshold shifts among children 6 to 19 years of age The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1988-1994. Pediatrics 109 987-988. 

Gergen PJ, Fowler JA, Maurer KR, et al. The burden of environmental tobacco smoke exposure on the respiratory health of children 2 months through 5 years of age in the United States Third national health and nutrition examination survey, 1988 to 1994. Pediatrics 1998 101(2) E8. 

Harris MI, Flegal KM, Cowie CC, Eberhardt MS, Goldstein DE, Little RR, et al. Prevalence of diabetes, impaired fasting glucose, and impaired glucose tolerance in U.S. adults. The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994. Diabetes Care 1998 21 518-24. 

Coresh J, Wei GL, McQuillan G, Brancati EL, Levey AS, Jones C, et al. Prevalence of high blood pressure and elevated serum creatinine level in the United States findings from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1988-1994). Arch Intern Med 2001 161 1207-16. 

Jones CA, McQuillan GM, Kusek JW, Eberhardt MS, Herman WH, Coresh J, et al. Serum creatinine levels in the US population Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Am J Kidney Dis 1998 32 992-9. 

Balluz, L.S. Kieszak, S.M. Philen, R.M. Mulinare, J. Vitamin and mineral supplement use in the United States. Results from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Arch. Fam. Mod. 2000, 9, 258 -262. 

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