Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Jul 2002
A healthy diet indicator: quantifying compliance with the dietary guidelines using the BRFSS.
The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) monitors population prevalence of risk factors related to chronic disease through annual telephone surveys. The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of using the BRFSS to estimate an indicator of overall diet quality among adults. ⋯ A BRFSS-based indicator can be a feasible and valuable tool for evaluating diet quality among adults using an established state-level surveillance system.
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Preventive medicine · Jul 2002
Obesity and associated coronary heart disease risk factors in a population of low-income African-American and white women: the North Carolina WISEWOMAN project.
Obesity has been associated with many co-occurring coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors as well as CHD mortality. These associations have been shown to vary between African-American and white sample populations. ⋯ The differences between and within African-American and white women may be accounted for by the high levels of HDL-C among obese and nonobese African-American women.