Transforming geographic scale: a comparison of combined population and areal weighting to other interpolation methods by Elaine Hallisey, Eric Tai, Andrew Berens, Grete Wilt, Lucy Peipins, Brian Lewis, Shannon Graham, Barry Flanagan, Natasha Buchanan Lunsford

“…For the primary study, we used county mortality counts from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and population data by census tract for the United States to estimate zone mortality. …”
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Eating practices, nutritional status and constipation in patients with Rett syndrome Práticas alimentares, estado nutricional e constipação intestinal na síndrome de Rett by Flavia Schwartzman, Márcia Regina Vítolo, José Salomão Schwartzman, Mauro Batista de Morais

“…Weight and height were compared with the National Center for Health Statistics standards. RESULTS: The inability to ingest solid foods was observed in 80.8% of the patients. …”
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Desigualdade social e outros determinantes da altura em crianças: uma análise multinível Social inequalities and other determinants of height in children: a multi-level analysis by Maria de Lourdes Drachler, Márcia Christina Stark Andersson, José Carlos de Carvalho Leite, Tom Marshall, Denise Rangel Ganzo de Castro Aerts, Paulo Fontoura Freitas, Elsa Regina Justo Giuglianni

“…Multi-level linear regression was applied to investigate the effect of socioeconomic and demographic factors, physical and social environment, and health conditions on children’s height, measured by the height-for-age z-scores of the National Center for Health Statistics standards. Area of residence (census tract) was classified as good versus poor in terms of housing and sanitation standards. …”
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Educational Differences in Diabetes Mortality among Hispanics in the United States: An Epidemiological Analysis of Vital Statistics Data (1989–2018) by Alberto Barcelo, Alfredo Valdivia, Angelo Sabag, Juan Pablo Rey-Lopez, Arise Garcia de Siqueira Galil, Fernando A.B. Colugnati, María Pastor-Valero

“…Death certificate data from the USA National Center for Health Statistics was downloaded, as well as USA population estimates by age, sex, and ethnicity from the USA Census Bureau. …”
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Fatal heart disease in patients with bone and soft tissue sarcoma by Bei Chen, Bei Chen, Bei Chen, Xin Zhao, Xiying Li, Jun Liu, Juyu Tang, Juyu Tang

“…Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) were evaluated using mortality data from the general population collected by the National Center for Health Statistics. This was the largest retrospective cohort study of fatal HD in individuals with sarcoma.ResultsIn 80,905 sarcoma patients observed for 530,290 person-years, 3,350 deaths from HD were identified with a mortality of 631.7/100,000 person-years. …”
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Trends in prepregnancy cardiovascular health in the United States, 2011–2019 by Michael C. Wang, Priya M. Freaney, Amanda M. Perak, Norrina B. Allen, Philip Greenland, William A. Grobman, Siobhan M. Phillips, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, Sadiya S. Khan

“…Methods: We conducted a serial, cross-sectional study of National Center for Health Statistics Natality Data representing all live births in the US from 2011 to 2019. …”
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Sleep duration, baseline cardiovascular risk, inflammation and incident cardiovascular mortality in ambulatory U.S. Adults: National health and nutrition examination survey by Kartik Gupta, Shivaraj Nagalli, Rajat Kalra, Rishab Gupta, Shazil Mahmood, Vardhmaan Jain, Wunan Zhou, Sumanth D. Prabhu, Navkaranbir S. Bajaj

“…Methods: We used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005–2010 linked with the cause of death data from the National Center for Health Statistics for adults aged ≥18 years. …”
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Ten-Year Trends of Persistent Mortality With Gallstone Disease: A Retrospective Cohort Study in New Jersey by Gregory L. Peck, Yen-Hong Kuo, Edward Nonnenmacher, Vicente H. Gracias, Shawna V. Hudson, Jason A. Roy, Brian L. Strom

“…Methods: We performed a retrospective, cohort study of mortality from 2009 to 2018 using the National Center for Health Statistics, Restricted Mortality Files. …”
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Estimativa da prevalência de déficit de altura/idade a partir da prevalência de déficit de peso/idade em crianças brasileiras Estimating the prevalence of height for age deficits b... by Cesar G. Victora, Denise P. Gigante, Aluísio J. D. Barros, Carlos Augusto Monteiro, Mercedes de Onis

“…METHODS: Thirty-eight anthropometric surveys of Brazilian children aged up to 5 years using the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reference were identified. …”
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Anemia e peso ao nascer Anemia and birthweight by Taqueco T Uchimura, Sophia C Szarfarc, Maria R D de O Latorre, Nelson S Uchimura, Sonia Buongermino de Souza

“…O estudo do crescimento para o indicador peso/idade e altura/idade teve como referência o padrão NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics). Para o diagnóstico da anemia, utilizou-se a dosagem bioquímica da concentração de hemoglobina pelo método colorimétrico direto, HemoCue. …”
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Temporal Trends in Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Birthing Individuals Aged 15 to 44 Years in the United States, 2007 to 2019 by Priya M. Freaney, Katharine Harrington, Rebecca Molsberry, Amanda M. Perak, Michael C. Wang, William Grobman, Philip Greenland, Norrina B. Allen, Simon Capewell, Martin O’Flaherty, Donald M. Lloyd‐Jones, Sadiya S. Khan

“…We included maternal data from all live births that occurred in the United States using the National Center for Health Statistics Natality Files. We quantified age‐standardized and age‐specific rates of APOs per 1000 live births and their respective mean annual percentage change. …”
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Prevalence, trend, and associated risk factors for cleft lip with/without cleft palate: a national study on live births from 2016 to 2021 by Mohammad-Hossein Heydari, Ali Sadeghian, Gita Khadivi, Hiba J. Mustafa, Ali Javinani, Nasser Nadjmi, Arash Khojasteh

“…Methods and materials In this cross-sectional population-based retrospective study, we used live birth data provided by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). …”
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Avaliação do estado nutricional e da composição corporal das crianças índias do Alto Xingu e da etnia Ikpeng Nutritional status and body composition of two South American native po... by Ulysses Fagundes, Benjamin Kopelman, Carlos Alberto Garcia Oliva, Roberto Geraldo Baruzzi, Ulysses Fagundes-Neto

“…The z-scores were calculated and classified according to the parameters defined by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS 2000). Shortness was defined as length or stature below -2, underweight as body mass index below -2, and overweight as body mass index above 2. …”
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Risk factors for overweight and obesity in adolescents of a Brazilian University: a case-control study Factores de riesgo para el sobrepeso y a obesidad en adolescentes de una Univ... by I. H. Carvalho Francescantonio Menezes, M. Borges Neutzling, J. A. de Aguiar Carrazedo Taddei

“…Methods: A case-control study comprising 1,465 adolescents, identifying 106 cases (Body Mass Index (BMI)> = 85th percentile of National Center for Health Statistics -NCHS) and 233 controls (BMI > 5th and < 85th percentile of NCHS). …”
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Growth assessment in children with extra-hepatic portal vein obstruction and portal hypertension Repercussões da obstrução extra-hepática da veia porta e hipertensão portal sobre o... by Maria Angela Bellomo-Brandão, André Moreno Morcillo, Gabriel Hessel, Silvia Regina Cardoso, Maria de Fátima P. C. Servidoni, Elizete A. L. da-Costa-Pinto

“…The mean Z scores of weight for age, height for age and body mass index at diagnosis and at the last consultation were compared to reference data of the National Center for Health Statistics. The two recordings were compared to assess the long-term effect of the condition. …”
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Estudio prospectivo de un grupo de niños con talla baja o disminución de la velocidad de crecimiento, o ambas by Mónica Rodríguez, Rosa Lang, Jacqueline Lucas, Virginia Méndez

“…Material y método: ingresaron al estudio los niños que tenían talla por debajo de –2DE (dos desvíos estándar negativos) de la media para las tablas y gráficos de referencia según edad y sexo (National Center for Health Statistics, Organización Mundial de la Salud 1979) o velocidad de crecimiento por debajo del percentil 25 (Tanner JM, Whitehouse RH), o ambas, que tuvieron un seguimiento suficiente para alcanzar el diagnóstico etiológico. …”
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Assessment of COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death among children and young people aged 0 to 19 years in the US by Flaxman, S, Whittaker, C, Semenova, E, Rashid, T, Parks, RM, Blenkinsop, A, Unwin, HJT, Mishra, S, Bhatt, S, Gurdasani, D, Ratmann, O

“…</p> <p><strong>Main Outcomes and Measures:</strong>&nbsp;Cause of death rankings by total number of deaths, crude rates per 100 000 population, and percentage of all causes of death, using the National Center for Health Statistics 113 Selected Causes of Death, for ages 0 to 19 and by age groupings (&lt;1 year, 1-4 years, 5-9 years, 10-14 years, 15-19 years).…”

Suicide and accidental deaths among patients with primary malignant bone tumors by Kaixu Yu, Bian Wu, Ying Chen, Honglei Kang, Kehan Song, Yimin Dong, Renpeng Peng, Feng Li

“…The standardised mortality ratio (SMR) was calculated based on the general population’s mortality data, gathered by the National Center for Health Statistics. The Cox regression model was developed to determine risk factors associated with a higher risk of suicide and accidental death. …”
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Association of Beta-2 Microglobulin with Stroke and All-Cause Mortality in Adults Aged ≥40 in U.S.: NHANES III by Yanan Zhang, Xiaobing Zhai, Keyang Liu, Wenzhi Ma, Shiyang Li, Jing Zeng, Mei Yang, Feng Zhou, Bing Xiang, Jinhong Cao, Ehab S. Eshak

“…During a median follow-up of 19.4 years, 254 stroke deaths and 3415 all-cause deaths were identified by the National Center for Health Statistics. The associations of β2M with stroke and all-cause mortalities were investigated by using weighted Cox proportional hazard regression models. …”
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Association Between Water Intake and Mortality Risk—Evidence From a National Prospective Study by Hao-long Zhou, Mu-hong Wei, Yuan Cui, Dong-sheng Di, Wen-jing Song, Ru-yi Zhang, Jun-an Liu, Qi Wang

“…BackgroundFew studies have explored the association between water intake and mortality risk, and the findings were inconsistent.ObjectiveThis study aimed to explore the water intake–mortality association, utilizing the data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and the 2015 public-linked mortality files released by the National Center for Health Statistics.MethodsWe used the diet- and mortality-linked data of a total of 35,463 adults (17,234 men) aged ≥20 years in the NHANESs 1999–2014 to perform a prospective study. …”
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