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Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I, 1971-1975: Medical History Questionnaire, Ages 1-11 (ICPSR 8138)

Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics

Summary:

This file contains demographic characteristics, medical history, school lunch milk, and breakfast programs data for 4,972 sample children ages 1-11 years.

Series: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and Followup Series

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U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics. HEALTH AND NUTRITION EXAMINATION SURVEY I, 1971-1975: MEDICAL HISTORY QUESTIONNAIRE, AGES 1-11. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1984. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08138.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08138.v1

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Scope of Study

Subject Terms: child nutrition, children, demographic characteristics, diet, disease, ethnicity, health behavior, health services utilization, health status, hospitalization, malnutrition, medical evaluation, nutrition, populations, risk factors, schools, social indicators

Geographic Coverage: United States

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Original ICPSR Release: 1984-05-03

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1975

(author unknown) . Anthropometric and Clinical Findings: Preliminary Findings of the First Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: United States, 1971-72. Rockville, MD: United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, National Center for Health Statistics.

2005

Brown, David W., Young, Karen E., Anda, Robert F., Giles, Wayne H. Asthma and risk of death from lung cancer: NHANES II Mortality Study. Journal of Asthma. 42, (7), 597-600.

1982

Kerr, G.R., Lee, E.S., Lorimor, R.J., Mueller, W.H., Lam, M.M. . Height distributions of U.S. children: Associations with race, poverty status and parental size. Growth. 46, (2), 135-149.

1999

Resnick, Helaine E., Valsania, Paola, Phillips, Caroline L. Diabetes mellitus and nontraumatic lower extremity amputation in black and white Americans: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Epidemiologic Follow-up Study, 1971-1992. Archives of Internal Medicine. 159, (20), 2470-2475.

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