BIRTH CERTIFICATE LINKAGE TO GROWTH AND HEALTH MEASURES USING NHANESIII

第三次全国健康和营养检查调查（NHANESIII） 收集的描述性数据，物理措施和生物医学样本， 一个有代表性的美国两个月到六岁的儿童样本 对黑人和墨西哥裔美国人进行了过度抽样。 我们建议 将NHANESIII中的大量数据与儿童的出生证明联系起来， 使用产前和出生信息。 联系的结果将 支持研究工作，以做以下工作：1）确定是否低出生率 体重或早产儿随后健康状况不佳， 在一个有代表性的国家儿童样本中， 6岁; 2）评估种族/种族和社会经济的影响 这些结果的因素; 3）发展规范的增长和其他 美国代表性人群的生物医学量表，黑人和 墨西哥裔美国儿童，根据出生时的风险简介;以及4） 比较产妇和代理人关于儿童风险的报告 出生时的因素和其他研究中使用的实际测量值。

The third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANESIII) has collected descriptive data, physical measures, and biomedical samples on a representative U.S. sample of children at ages two months through six years with oversampling for blacks and Mexican Americans. We propose to link the extensive data from NHANESIII to the child's birth certificate to use the prenatal and birth information. Results of the linkage will support research efforts to do the following: 1) To determine if low birth weight or premature children have subsequent poor health as measured by biomedical markers in a representative national sample of children through age six; 2) to assess the effects of ethnic/racial and socioeconomic factors on these outcomes; 3) to develop normative growth and other biomedical scales for a U.S. representative population, and black and Mexican-American children, according to a risk profile at birth; and 4) to develop comparisons between maternal and proxy reports of children's risk factors at birth and actual measurements for use in other studies.