Using linear regression, the authors demonstrated a strong association between State-specific coronary heart disease mortality rates and State prevalence of sedentary lifestyle (r2 = 0.34; P = 0.0002) that remained significant after controlling for the prevalence of diagnosed hypertension, smoking, and overweight among the State's population. This ecologic analysis suggests that sedentary lifestyle may explain State variation in coronary heart disease mortality and reinforces the need to include physical activity promotion as a part of programs in the States to prevent heart disease.
Data on pacemaker implantation were obtained from the Medical Device Implant Supplement to the 1988 National Health Interview Survey, a nationally rep...
This comparison between public health departments in the U.S. and in the Canadian Province of Ontario addresses the funding and staffing and the size ...
The Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides supplemental food, nutrition and health education, and social se...
One of the national objectives in "Healthy People 2000" is for members of the public to increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables to five or...
This study used the 1983-86 U.S. Linked Live Birth-Infant Death Files to examine variations in pregnancy outcomes among 38,551 U.S. resident black and...
Animal bites are a reality of life throughout the world. They arise out of an imperfect relationship with domestic animals and wildlife. Most bite inj...
Rates of both type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease have risen sharply in recent years among Navajo Indians, the largest reservation-based Americ...
The Health Care Financing Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services has carried out for several years the systematic assessment of...
The characteristics of clients reporting no health insurance were compared with those reporting any health insurance at publicly funded human immunode...
Of 391 patients with sickle cell disease known to the health care facilities of the University of South Alabama, 194 patients used these facilities in...
The latest revision of the birth certificate features a new checkbox format designed to collect more effectively information for public health researc...
Although prior research has found that homes containing firearms and illicit drug and ethanol users are more likely to be the scene of a homicide than...
Despite a growing body of anecdotal evidence suggesting the spread of firearms to suburban juvenile populations, most studies of firearm activity by j...
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