BIRTH CERTIFICATE LINKAGE TO GROWTH AND HEALTH MEASURES USING NHANESIII

第三次全国健康与营养检查调查(NHANESIII) 收集描述性数据、物理测量和生物医学样本 具有代表性的美国两个月至六岁儿童样本 多年来对黑人和墨西哥裔美国人进行了过度抽样。我们建议 将NHANESIII的大量数据与孩子的出生证明联系起来 使用产前和出生信息。联动的结果将 支持开展以下工作的研究工作：1)确定低出生人口是否 体重或早产儿随后的健康状况不佳，由 具有代表性的全国儿童样本中的生物医学标志物 6岁；2)评估民族/种族和社会经济的影响 影响这些结果的因素；3)发展规范增长和其他 美国代表性人群的生物医学标尺，以及黑人和 墨西哥裔美国儿童，根据出生时的风险概况；以及4) 比较母亲报告和代理报告对儿童风险的影响 出生因素和实际测量用于其他研究。

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.