Contributions of a Local Health Examination Survey to the Surveillance of Chronic and Infectious Diseases in New York City

We sought to evaluate the contribution of the New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NYC-HANES) to local public health surveillance. Examination-diagnosed estimates of key health conditions from the 2004 NYC-HANES were compared with the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surve...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2009-01, Vol.99 (1), p.152-159
Main Authors: Gwynn, R. Charon, Garg, Renu K, Kerker, Bonnie D, Frieden, Thomas R, Thorpe, Lorna E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adults
Biological and medical sciences
Blood pressure
Body mass index
Cholesterol
Chronic Disease
Chronic illnesses
Communicable Diseases - epidemiology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Diabetes
Diabetes Mellitus - epidemiology
Disease
Environmental health
Estimates
Ethnicity
Fasting
Female
Health Policy
Health surveillance
Health surveys
Hepatitis C
Herpes viruses
Hispanic people
Humans
Hypercholesterolemia - epidemiology
Hyperlipidemia
Hypertension
Hypertension - epidemiology
Infectious diseases
Interviews
Laboratories
Male
Measurement errors
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Miscellaneous
Mortality
New York City - epidemiology
Nutrition
Nutrition Surveys
Obesity
Obesity - epidemiology
Physical examinations
Polls & surveys
Population
Population Surveillance
Public health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Research and Practice
Response rates
Self report
Surveillance
Womens health
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Summary:We sought to evaluate the contribution of the New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NYC-HANES) to local public health surveillance. Examination-diagnosed estimates of key health conditions from the 2004 NYC-HANES were compared with the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003-2004 national estimates. Findings were also compared with self-reported estimates from the Community Health Survey (CHS), an annually conducted local telephone survey. NYC-HANES estimated that among NYC adults, 25.6% had hypertension, 25.4% had hypercholesterolemia, 12.5% had diabetes, and 25.6% were obese. Compared with US adults, NYC residents had less hypertension and obesity but more herpes simplex 2 and environmental exposures (P
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2007.117010