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SHARON GREEN, PLAINTIFF,v.MICHAEL J. ASTRUE, COMMISSIONER OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, DEFENDANT.
Plaintiff filed this action seeking reversal of the decision of defendant, the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (the "Commissioner"), denying plaintiff's applications for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income benefits. The parties have filed a Joint Stipulation ("JS") setting forth their contentions with respect to each disputed issue.
Administrative Proceedings
The parties are familiar with the procedural facts, which are summarized in the Joint Stipulation. [See JS 2]. In a May 24, 2006 written hearing decision that constitutes the Commissioner's final decision in this case, an administrative law judge (the "ALJ") found that plaintiff had a severe impairments consisting of a generalized anxiety disorder with panic attacks. [JS 2; Administrative Record ("AR") 17]. The ALJ found that plaintiff retained the residual functional capacity ("RFC") for work at all exertional levels, and that she had non-exertional limitations restricting her to moderately complex tasks in a habituated setting, with no responsibility for the safety of others, no rapid pace work, and no operation of hazardous machinery (but she could be around hazardous machinery). [AR 18]. The ALJ concluded that although plaintiff's RFC precluded her from performing her past relevant work as a school bus driver, she could perform alternative jobs existing in significant numbers in the national economy. [AR 22].
Statement of Disputed Issues
The disputed issues are whether: (1) the Appeals Council properly considered the additional evidence from plaintiff's treating therapist; (2) the ALJ properly evaluated the credibility of plaintiff's subjective complaints; (3) the ALJ properly evaluated the written statement of a third-party lay witness; and (4) the ALJ properly considered the type, dosage, and side effects of plaintiff's prescribed medications. [JS 2-3].
Standard of Review
The Commissioner's denial of benefits should be disturbed only if it is not supported by substantial evidence or is based on legal error. Stout v. Comm'r Social Sec. Admin., 454 F.3d 1050, 1054 (9th Cir. 2006); Thomas v. Barnhart, 278 F.3d 947, 954 (9th Cir. 2002). "Substantial evidence" means "more than a mere scintilla, but less than a preponderance." Bayliss v. Barnhart, 427 F.3d 1211, 1214 n.1 (9th Cir. 2005). "It is such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion." Burch v. Barnhart, 400 F.3d 676, 679 (9th Cir. 2005)(internal quotation marks omitted). The court is required to review the record as a whole and to consider evidence detracting from the decision as well as evidence supporting the decision. Robbins v. Soc. Sec. Admin, 466 F.3d 880, 882 (9th Cir. 2006); Verduzco v. Apfel, 188 F.3d 1087, 1089 (9th Cir. 1999). "Where the evidence is susceptible to more than one rational interpretation, one of which supports the ALJ's decision, the ALJ's conclusion must be upheld." Thomas, 278 F.3d at 954 (citing Morgan v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec. Admin., 169 F.3d 595, 599 (9th Cir.1999)).
Appeal Council's consideration of additional evidence Plaintiff contends that the Appeals Council erred by failing specifically to "consider, discuss, analyze or even mention" a "Work Capacity Evaluation" form signed by Gabriele E. Roberts, LMFT (licensed marriage and family therapist) on July 10, 2006. [JS 3-8].
Plaintiff submitted Roberts's evaluation along with his request for review to the Appeals Council, which denied plaintiff's request in a written "Notice of Appeals Council Action" ("Notice") dated September 15, 2006. [AR 7-19]. The Notice states that the Appeals Council "considered the additional evidence listed on the enclosed Order of Appeals Council," but that "this information does not provide a basis for changing the [ALJ's] decision." [AR 7-8]. The order lists Roberts's "check-the-box" evaluation form, which was made a part of the record. [AR 10; see AR 320-321].
The Commissioner's regulations state that
[i]f new and material evidence is submitted [to the Appeals Council], the Appeals Council shall consider the additional evidence only where it relates to the period on or before the date of the administrative law judge hearing decision. . . . It will then review the case if it finds that the administrative law judge's action, findings, or conclusion is contrary to the weight of the evidence currently of record.
20 C.F.R. §§ 404.970(b), 416.1470(b).
There is no merit to plaintiff's argument that the Appeals Council improperly failed to consider or discuss Roberts's evaluation. First, the Appeals Council made Roberts's opinion a part of the record and stated that it had considered that evidence. When the Appeals Council denies review, as it did in this case, the ALJ's decision stands as the final decision of the Commissioner, and only that decision (not the Appeals Council's action in denying review) is subject to judicial review. The Appeals Council is not obliged to make findings explaining its evaluation of the evidence unless it reviews the ALJ's decision and issues its own decision. See 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.967-404.981, 416.1467-416.1481; see generally 42 U.S.C. § 405(g).*fn1 Thus, the Appeals Council did not err in failing to articulate reasons supporting its decision that the additional evidence did not justify granting review.
Second, Roberts's evaluation postdates the ALJ's unfavorable decision, and it is unclear whether, or to what extent, the particular limitations noted on that form applied to plaintiff's condition prior to the date of the ALJ's decision. See Sanchez v. Sec'y of Health & Human Servs., 812 F.2d 509, 511-12 (9th Cir. 1987) (holding that new evidence indicating deterioration in the claimant's condition after the hearing was not material to the ALJ's decision denying benefits because it was not probative of the claimant's condition at or before his disability hearing).
Third, the Appeals Council correctly determined that Roberts's report provided no basis for changing the ALJ's decision. For one thing, her opinion was entitled to less weight than that of a treating physician or psychologist because an LMFT is not an "acceptable medical source" within the meaning of the governing regulations. The ALJ may consider information in the record from "other sources" (that is, sources other than an "acceptable medical source") but ordinarily is not required to give that information that same weight as information from an acceptable medical source. See 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1513(a)&(d), 416.913(a)&(d)(defining an "acceptable medical source," and explaining that information from "other sources" also may be considered); Gomez v. Chater, 74 F.3d 967, 970-971 (9th Cir.) (holding that the regulations permit the Commissioner to give "less weight" to opinions from "other sources"), cert. denied, 519 U.S. 881 (1996); see generally Social Security Ruling ("SSR") 06-03p, 2006 WL 2329939, at *1-*6. Additionally, Roberts provided no clinical findings, objective data, diagnoses, or explanation of any kind supporting the mental functional limitations she checked off on the form. Cf. Thomas, 278 F.3d at 957 ("The ALJ need not accept the opinion of any physician, including a treating physician, if that opinion is brief, conclusory, and inadequately supported by clinical findings.").
Fourth, the ALJ considered, discussed, and articulated reasons for rejecting a narrative "Mental Disorder Questionnaire Form" completed by Roberts on October 28, 2004. [AR 20, 287-291]. Plaintiff has not challenged the ALJ's rejection of that earlier opinion from Roberts, and therefore plaintiff has waived that issue in this action for judicial review. See Greger v. Barnhart, 464 F.3d 968, 973 (9th Cir. 2006)(holding that the claimant waived issues because he did not raise those issues before the district court); Bergfeld v. Barnhart, 361 F.Supp.2d 1102, 1110 (D. Ariz. 2005)("A reviewing federal court will only address the issues raised by the claimant in his appeal from the ALJ's decision.")(citing Lewis v. Apfel, 236 F.3d 503, 517 n.13 (9th Cir. 2001)). There is no "manifest injustice" in a finding a waiver in the circumstances presented. See Greger, 464 F.3d at 973 (stating that the court will only refrain from finding a waiver when a recognized exception applies and doing so is "necessary to avoid a manifest injustice")(quoting Meanel v. Apfel, 172 F.3d 1111, 1115 (9th Cir. 1999)). Plaintiff was represented by counsel during the administrative hearing, and she is represented by an experienced social security disability attorney in this action, giving her ample opportunity to raise and argue relevant issues she deems meritorious. Plaintiff also had the opportunity to file a reply to defendant's contentions in the joint stipulation.
For all of these reasons, plaintiff's argument that the Appeals Council erred in evaluating Roberts's opinion lacks merit.
Credibility finding
Plaintiff contends that the ALJ did not provide legally sufficient reasons for rejecting plaintiff's subjective testimony. Specifically, plaintiff argues that the ALJ improperly rejected her testimony that she has to six to seven panic attacks a month that may last several hours, can stand only 10 to 15 minutes at a time, and cannot work due to disabling pain, weakness, blurry vision, dizziness, uncontrollable shaking, and a burning sensation in her head. [JS 9-16; AR 151].
Once a disability claimant produces evidence of an underlying physical or mental impairment that is reasonably likely to be the source of his or her subjective symptoms, the adjudicator is required to consider all subjective testimony as to the severity of the symptoms. Moisa v. Barnhart, 367 F.3d 882, 885 (9th Cir. 2004); Bunnell v. Sullivan, 947 F.2d 341, 345 (9th Cir. 1991) (en banc); see also 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1529(a), 416.929(a) (explaining how pain and other symptoms are evaluated). Although the ALJ may then disregard the subjective testimony he considers not credible, he must provide specific, convincing reasons for doing so. Tonapetyan v. Halter, 242 F.3d 1144, 1148 (9th Cir. 2001); see also Moisa, 367 F.3d at 885 (stating that in the absence of evidence of malingering, an ALJ may not dismiss the subjective testimony of claimant without providing "clear and convincing reasons"). The ALJ's credibility findings "must be sufficiently specific to allow a reviewing court to conclude the ALJ rejected the claimant's testimony on permissible grounds and did not arbitrarily discredit the claimant's testimony." Moisa, 367 F.3d at 885; see Light v. Social Sec. Admin., 119 F.3d 789, 792 (9th Cir. 1997) (enumerating factors that bear on the credibility of subjective complaints); Fair v. Bowen, 885 F.2d 597, 604 n.5 (9th Cir. 1989)(same). If the ALJ's assessment of the claimant's testimony is reasonable and is supported by substantial evidence, it is not the court's role to "second-guess" it. Rollins v. Massanari, 261 F.3d 853, 857 (9th Cir. 2001).
The ALJ discussed plaintiff's subjective complaints, including her hearing testimony, and articulated specific, clear, and convincing reasons based on substantial evidence for not finding those complaints fully credible. Relying on the testimony of Dr. Malancharuvil, the medical expert, and the medical evidence of record, the ALJ noted that plaintiff's subjective allegations of having the "shakes," body aches, weakness in her hands, dizziness or vertigo, headaches, hyperventilation, and blurry vision were unsupported by objective medical evidence. [AR 17-19, 21, 37-48, 51]. Plaintiff said that she stopped working as a school bus driver in April 2003 due to vertigo. [AR 49]. However, Dr. Malancharuvil testified that plaintiff's normal neurological examination was inconsistent with her allegation of vertigo, and the record did not document significant or ongoing treatment for vertigo or the other physical symptoms plaintiff described. [See AR 37-48]. Plaintiff testified that it was her understanding that her vertigo was due to "stress, stress and life." [AR 21]. Dr. Malancharuvil explained, however, that vertigo is a neurological or inner ear problem, and that anxiety may be a by-product of vertigo but did not cause that condition. [AR 38-39, 44-46]. See Burch, 400 F.3d at 681 ("Although lack of medical evidence cannot form the sole basis for discounting pain testimony, it is a factor that the ALJ can consider in his credibility analysis.").
The ALJ also observed that plaintiff's subjective testimony was vague, internally inconsistent, and inconsistent with her treatment history, the medical evidence, and her daily activities. [AR 20-21]. See Tonapetyan, 242 F.3d at 1148 (stating that the ALJ can use "ordinary techniques of credibility evaluation" and may rely on inconsistent statements in testimony)(citing Fair, 885 F.2d at 604 n.5); Matthews v. Shalala, 10 F.3d 678, 679-680 (9th Cir. 1993) (holding that the ALJ properly considered the claimant's inconsistent statements as part of his credibility analysis). For example, plaintiff testified that since 2003, she had panic attacks, on average, six to seven times a month that lasted for more than one hour and "can last for hours at a time and continue on, you now, at nighttime until when I go to bed and when I wake up early in the morning I can still have them." [AR 34]. Dr. Malancharuvil testified that plaintiff's description of her symptoms was suggestive of generalized anxiety rather than recurring panic attacks, which, he explained, typically dissipate after a few minutes and cannot be sustained by the body for long intervals due to their intensity. [AR 20-21, 40, 44]. Dr. Malancharuvil testified that panic attacks produced an "unbearable feeling" and that, if such attacks persisted notwithstanding treatment with medication, the patient ordinarily would seek "more assertive treatment." [AR 44, 46].
As the ALJ remarked, however, plaintiff's medical records show that she was briefly treated in the emergency room for anxiety on only two occasions. Both of those emergency visits occurred in 2003, within a few months after plaintiff stopped working, and nearly three years before the administrative hearing. [AR 21, 220-224]. Records from Community Hospital of San Bernardino show that plaintiff visited the emergency room in July 2003 complaining of anxiety related to taking her first dose of the antidepressant Zoloft. [AR 223-224]. She reported that after taking 50 milligrams of that medication at bedtime, she experienced uncontrollable shaking, awoke three times, and felt like her head was "burning and sweating." The diagnosis was "anxiety reaction associated with first dose of Zoloft." [AR 221]. Plaintiff was given Valium to relax her and was discharged with instructions to reduce her Zoloft dosage and to take 5 milligrams of Valium at bedtime for 10 days. [AR 223-224]. Plaintiff's medical records and disability reports indicate that no later than November 2003 (and perhaps as early as August 2003), Zoloft had been discontinued, and plaintiff was taking Paxil and lorazepam (the generic form of Ativan), which were prescribed for depression and anxiety. [AR 36, 114, 138, 177, 189, 196-198, 220].
In August 2003, plaintiff returned to the emergency department complaining of insomnia, extreme anxiety, and feeling that her heart was "racing and pounding in her chest," without chest pain or shortness of breath. [AR 220-222]. She stated that she had "been having some of these symptoms since being placed on Paxil one week ago." [AR 220]. After being given Ativan intramuscularly for anxiety, plaintiff reported feeling less anxious. [AR 221]. Her diagnoses were "palpitations" and "anxiety reaction." She was discharged with instructions to follow up with her primary care physician. [AR 222].
Plaintiff was continued on Paxil in combination with lorazepam, and she remained on those medications through the date of the administrative hearing close to three years later. [AR 36, 114, 138, 177]. The ALJ noted that plaintiff had no emergency treatment for anxiety or panic attacks after August 2003 and, aside from her medications, had not pursued other psychiatric or psychological treatment on a consistent basis. [AR 21]. Therefore, substantial evidence supports the ALJ's conclusion that plaintiff's subjective complaints of disabling, recurrent, ongoing panic attacks were inconsistent with her treatment history. Cf. Fair, 885 F.2d at 604 (holding that the ALJ permissibly considered discrepancies between the alleged severity of the claimant's pain and the nature and extent of treatment obtained).
Similarly, the ALJ permissibly inferred that plaintiff's symptoms of anxiety or panic were reasonably well controlled on Paxil and lorazepam, and that her residual symptoms could be accommodated within the non-exertional functional limitation assessed in his RFC finding. That conclusion was consistent with plaintiff's testimony that those medications helped alleviate her symptoms, as well as with Dr. Malancharuvil's testimony that plaintiff's condition was controlled with medication. [AR 38-40]. Plaintiff testified that Paxil helped calm her down in the morning, and lorazepam helped her sleep at night. [AR 36]. Asked why she did not change her medical treatment if it was not, in fact, effective in controlling her symptoms, plaintiff answered:
Oh. You know, I really have no idea. I just think I'm used to the medicine and I like the medication and at times I'm afraid to change to a different medication because of what the side effects may [be] and I don't want to, you know, have an allergic reaction or something which I get afraid of . . .that's why I don't change medications. [AR 38-39].
The ALJ also considered plaintiff's activities of daily living as described by plaintiff and by her friend, Kelvin Davis. That evidence showed that plaintiff took her 13-year-old daughter to school daily, rode the bus, interacted with friends, cared for her personal needs and those of her daughter, performed routine household chores, handled her own money, and said she did not have memory problems and could follow directions. [AR 21, 120-134, 154-170]. Cf. Thomas, 278 F.3d at 953, 959 (holding that the ALJ did not err in finding that the claimant's ability to live alone and perform chores such as cooking, laundry, washing dishes, and shopping undermined the credibility of her subjective complaints).
The ALJ provided legally sufficient reasons, based on substantial evidence in the record, to support his negative credibility evaluation. Therefore, plaintiff's contentions lack merit.
Lay Witness Testimony
Plaintiff contends that the ALJ erred in rejecting a third party function report completed by plaintiff's friend, Kelvin Davis, stating that plaintiff has panic attacks, cannot pay bills, does not handle stress very well, and that her condition affects her ability to stand, walk, talk, see, concentrate, and get along with others. [JS 16-18; AR 120-125].
While an ALJ must take into account lay witness testimony about a claimant's symptoms, the ALJ may discount that testimony by providing "reasons that are germane to each witness." Greger v. Barnhart, 464 F.3d 968, 972 (9th Cir. 2006)(quoting Dodrill v. Shalala, 12 F.3d 915, 919 (9th Cir.1993)). Germane reasons for rejecting a lay witness's testimony include inconsistencies between that testimony and the medical evidence, inconsistencies between that testimony and the claimant's presentation to treating physicians during the period at issue, and the claimant's failure to participate in prescribed treatment. See Greger, 464 F.3d at 971; Bayliss, 427 F.3d at 1218; Lewis v. Apfel, 236 F.3d 503, 511 (9th Cir. 2001).
Davis's statements were consistent with plaintiff's own subjective allegations, which the ALJ permissibly discounted. Davis, moreover, had a limited opportunity to observe plaintiff, in that he said he saw her only twice a month, when they would "talk and probably to the mall." [AR 120]. Davis also said he did not know the answer to several of the questions, including "Describe what the disabled person does from the time [she] wakes up until going to bed." [AR 120-125]. Although Davis said that plaintiff had panic attacks, "mood swings," and some difficulty handling stress, he said that she took care of her daughter, did not need reminders to take care of her personal needs, wrote reminders to take her medication on a calendar, prepared her own meals, did household chores such as laundry, mopping, and washing dishes with help from her daughter, shopped in stores, did not pay her own bills or have a savings account but could count change and use a checkbook, watched television, did crossword puzzles, talked on the phone with others, spent time with her daughter, and got along well with authority figures, such as police or landlords. [AR 120-125]. Davis also said that plaintiff's condition affected her ability to stand, walk, talk, and see, but he did not respond to a question asking him to explain how plaintiff's illness, injury, or condition limited those abilities. [AR 125-126].
The ALJ considered Davis's report along with plaintiff's written statements and testimony, but, for the reasons described above [AR 21], he permissibly concluded that those statements were not corroborated by the objective medical evidence, were internally inconsistent or inconsistent with other substantial evidence in the record, and credibly reflected limitations that were within the RFC the ALJ described. Accordingly, the ALJ provided germane reasons for his assessment of Davis's report.
Type, Dosage, and Side Effects of Prescribed Medications
Plaintiff argues that the ALJ improperly disregarded plaintiff's statements that Paxil causes severe dizziness and lorazepam causes severe dizziness, uncontrollable shaking, drowsiness or fatigue, and blurred vision. [See JS 18-22].
In evaluating a claimant's subjective symptoms, the ALJ must consider, among other things, the type, dosage, effectiveness, and adverse side effects of any medication. See 20 C.F.R. §§ 404.1529(c)(3), 416.929(c)(3); SSR 96-7p, 1996 WL 374186, at *3. As explained above, the ALJ's analysis of plaintiff's subjective symptoms was proper. Referring to Paxil and lorazepam, plaintiff testified that she "like[d] the medication" and was not motivated to change it, suggesting that any side effects were tolerable. The ALJ reviewed plaintiff's medical records and noted that she was briefly treated and released after having an adverse reaction to Zoloft in July 2003. [AR 21, 223-224]. As previously noted, that medication was soon discontinued in favor of the combination of Paxil and lorazepam. Plaintiff also had an "anxiety reaction" in August 2003, soon after starting Paxil, prompting her to seek emergency room treatment. She was treated with Ativan and released, and there is no evidence of subsequent emergency visits or other treatment for medication side effects. [AR 221, 220-222]. Accordingly, there is no merit to plaintiff's contention that the ALJ improperly rejected plaintiff's complaints of adverse effects from her medications.
For the reasons stated above, the Commissioner's decision is supported by substantial evidence and reflects application of the proper legal standards. Accordingly, defendant's decision is affirmed.
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The Stadt Kirche, an Evangelical municipal church, was build by the Architecht Friedrich Weinbrenner between 1807 and 1816. The church served as the cathedral for the Baden state.
The belltower is 61.7m high, with 150 steps leading to the viewing platform, where a birdseye view of the city is provided. The tower was modelled on a Greek Temple, and supports a 2.7m high Angel of Peace, which acts as a weather cock.
There are many markets in Karlsruhe. You'll find local vegetables, fruits, honey , cheese and meat. But also exotic fruits are sold here. I always love to walk across a market, even though I don't buy much.
meanwhile a symbol of the street it started as a interim solution to give the grave of Margrave Karl Wilhelm a new "roof", because the formally one, the concordia chruch has been torn down due to lack of space. So first a wood construction has been constructed and about 100 years later the now existing stone construction has been finalized.
This place is at least once a week what it says, a market place, as you can see on the photo. Besides it is one of the main central places of the city, with the old town hall and the protestant town church next to it (constructed by Weinbrenner). Besides the tram passes this place, the most important directions cross on this place.
Karlsruhe is known for it's little pyramide in the center of town. A famous architect loved the Egyptian type of architecture and put a pyramide and oblisque in the middle of Karlsruhe. (Sorry, I wish I had a better picture)
The Markplatz is the19th century centre of the town. It has an interesting pryamid monument flanked by the Town Hall (designed by Weinbrenner) and Stadtkirche.


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In the U.S., where coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of mortality, CHD risk assessment is a priority and accurate blood pressure (BP) measurement is essential.
Hypertension estimates in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), Wave IV (2008)—a nationally-representative field study of 15,701 participants aged 24–32—was referenced against NHANES (2007–2008) participants of the same age. We examined discordances in hypertension, and estimated the accuracy and reliability of blood pressure in the Add Health study.
Hypertension rates (BP ≥ 140/90 mm Hg) were higher in Add Health compared with NHANES (19% versus 4%), but self-reported history was similar (11% versus 9%) among adults aged 24–32. Survey weights and adjustments for differences in participant characteristics, examination time, use of anti-hypertensive medications, and consumption of food/caffeine/cigarettes before blood pressure measurement had little effect on between-study differences in hypertension estimates. Among Add Health participants interviewed and examined twice (full and abbreviated interviews), blood pressure was similar, as was blood pressure at the in-home and in-clinic exams conducted by NHANES III (1988–1994). In Add Health, there was minimal digit preference in blood pressure measurements; mean bias never exceeded 2 mm Hg; and reliability (estimated as intra-class correlation coefficients) was 0.81 and 0.68 for systolic and diastolic BPs, respectively.
The proportion of young adults in NHANES reporting a history of hypertension was twice that with measured hypertension, whereas the reverse was found in Add Health. Between-survey differences were not explained by digit preference, low validity, or reliability of Add Health blood pressure data, or by salient differences in participant selection, measurement context, or interview content. The prevalence of hypertension among Add Health Wave IV participants suggests an unexpectedly high risk of cardiovascular disease among U.S. young adults and warrants further scrutiny.
In the United States, coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of mortality—accounting for more than half a million deaths annually.1 Blood pressure (BP) measurement is integral to CHD risk assessment and diagnosis of hypertension, a behaviorally and pharmacologically modifiable CHD risk factor. It has been estimated that each 1 mm Hg increase in mean population systolic BP is associated with approximately 10,000 additional CHD deaths.2
National estimates of hypertension prevalence in the United States rely almost exclusively on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).3,4 However, NHANES is not without limitations. For example, group-specific estimates are unavailable for racial/ethnic minorities other than Hispanics and non-Hispanic Blacks. NHANES' cross-sectional design also prohibits the study of precursors and individual trajectories in the development of hypertension. Furthermore, its assessment of hypertension rates among young adults is hindered by small sample sizes. Several factors fuel interest in the measurement of physical health during young adulthood 5—one usually characterized by the absence of adverse health conditions.6 A particularly important example is the sharp escalation among youth of overweight and obesity, both of which are well-known risk factors for hypertension.7 The prevalence of overweight children has tripled in the last two decades alone.8
In 2008, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health, Wave IV) expanded collection of biologic data, including in-home measurement of blood pressure among 15,701 young adults aged 24–32 years throughout all 50 states. We compared mean blood pressure and hypertension prevalence in this population with that of similarly aged participants in NHANES 2007–2008,9 and examined putative explanations for the observed discordance between surveys.
The measurement of blood pressure in nationally representative field studies such as Add Health is distinct from (and arguably more complicated than) that in exam center-based studies, requiring measurement in more variable home environments, many more field staff, and large numbers of portable, affordable blood pressure monitors. Although the quality of blood pressure data collected in exam centers by trained technicians using clinical equipment has been described,10,11 studies capable of supporting population-wide inferences that have examined the quality of in-home blood pressure data are scarce. We therefore examined the accuracy and reliability of blood pressure in Add Health, Wave IV, as well.
Add Health enrolled a probability sample of 20,745 U.S. adolescents in grades 7 through 12 during the 1994–1995 school year (Wave I response rate: 79%).12 Three in-home follow-up interviews of the cohort have been completed since then: Wave II in 1996 (88% of the eligible cohort at Wave I), Wave III in 2001–2002 (77%), and Wave IV in 2008 (80%). Each wave of this study, approved by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Public Health-Nursing Institutional Review Board, complied with regulations governing human subjects research.
Detailed information on the study's cardiovascular measurements has been published elsewhere.13 Briefly, all 15,701 Add Health participants completing the Wave IV interview were asked whether they had ever been told by a health care professional that they have hypertension (i.e. self-reported history of hypertension). Women were asked to exclude diagnoses during pregnancy. After the interview, participants rested in a seated position for five minutes, after which three measures of resting, seated blood pressure were recorded. There were 323 trained and certified field interviewers who followed a computer-assisted data collection protocol.13 Add Health attempted to collect blood pressure on all its respondents, including those in prison and the military. Blood pressure was recorded from the right arm at 30-second intervals using a cuff matched to arm circumference (adult, 24.0–33.7 cm; large adult, 33.7–40.6 cm) and a $65 automatic oscillometric monitor with an advertised resolution and accuracy of 1 and 3 mm Hg, approved by the British Hypertension Society (BP 3MC1-PC_IB; MicroLife USA, Inc.; Dunedin, FL). After blood pressure measurement, the interviewer inventoried antihypertensive medications (beta-adrenergic blockers; calcium channel blockers; angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors; angiotensin II receptor blockers; centrally or peripherally acting anti-adrenergics; vasodilators; thiazide diuretics; antihypertensive combinations) used by participants within the preceding four weeks by visually inspecting participant-assembled medication containers and automatically categorizing their contents in real-time using Lexicon Plus™ (Lexi-Comp®, Inc.; Hudson, OH). Following 11% of interviews, post-encounter telephone calls using a standardized script13 were made to participants to verify, among other things, field interviewer adherence to the blood pressure protocol.
To ensure the accuracy of systolic and diastolic BPs reported to participants, the second and third measures of each were double-entered, automatically checked in real-time for discrepant entries or values exceeding the monitor-specific range of measurement (30–280 mm Hg), averaged, and then classified according to Joint National Committee (JNC) 7 guidelines.14 All summary statistics involving Add Health data were estimated using STATA®/SE 10 (StataCorp LP, College Station, TX), with sample design variables to account for clustering and to produce nationally representative estimates.12
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2007–20089 is a population-based, cross-sectional survey of the civilian, non-institutionalized U.S. population conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for Health Statistics. Participants were selected with a stratified, multistage probability sampling design. The survey included health interviews conducted in participants' homes and health measurements made in mobile examination centers during morning (8:30am), afternoon (1:30pm), and evening (5:30pm) sessions. Of the 12,943 households approached, 10,149 provided interviews (response rate = 78%) and 9762 participants were examined (response rate = 75%). Similar response rates were seen among participants 20–39 years of age.
During the in-home interviews, antihypertensive medications were inventoried in the same manner as for Add Health. Participants were asked whether they had ever been told by a health care professional that they have hypertension (i.e., self-reported history of hypertension). Blood pressure was measured on all participants 8 years of age or older by certified physician examiners using a Baumanometer calibrated mercury true gravity wall model pressure gauge. Blood pressure was taken after participants rested in a seated position for five minutes; typically three measures of blood pressure were recorded in 30-second intervals. All summary statistics were estimated using STATA®/SE 10 (StataCorp LP, College Station, TX), with sample design variables taken into account for clustering and to produce nationally representative estimates.
Cross-survey comparisons were made among adults aged 24–32 years with valid blood pressure and survey weights. The analysis sample included 14,252 Add Health participants (47 aged 33–34 years were excluded) and 733 NHANES 2007–2008 participants. Mean blood pressure and prevalence of hypertension (BP ≥ 140/90 mm Hg) for Add Health participants were referenced against NHANES participants before and after weighting for unequal sampling probabilities, clustering and predicted probabilities of participant selection (propensities).15 Propensities were conditional on age (years), race/ethnicity (non-Hispanic white; non-Hispanic black; Mexican; other Hispanic; other race/multiracial), sex, education (<high school; high school/ high school equivalency degree (GED); some college/Associate's degree; 4-year college or more), annual household income (< $20,000; ≥ $20,000), health insurance status (insured; uninsured), body mass index (underweight; normal weight; overweight; obese class I; obese class II/III), current daily smoking (yes; no), heavy alcohol use in previous 12 months (none; < weekly; ≥ weekly), separately coded consumption of food, caffeine intake and smoking in the 30 minutes before blood pressure measurement, and time of measurement session (morning, afternoon, evening). In Add Health, heavy alcohol use was assessed via the following question: "During the past 12 months, on how many days did you drink 5 or more (among men) or 4 or more (among women) drinks in a row?" In NHANES, respondents were asked, "In the past 12 months, on how many days did you have 5 or more drinks of any alcoholic beverage."
Weighted logistic regression models were used to estimate the predicted probabilities of selection into Add Health (versus NHANES) conditional on participant characteristics. Add Health and NHANES sampling weights were then adjusted via multiplication by the inverse predicted probabilities of selection.16 Persons in categories under-represented in Add Health versus NHANES were thereby given higher weight, and vice versa. We then recomputed mean systolic and diastolic BP in Add Health and NHANES using these adjusted weights. Finally, logistic regression models were used to estimate the odds of hypertension in Add Health versus NHANES using adjusted weights and controlling for the full set of above-mentioned covariates.
To explore the effect of measurement context, we used NHANES III (1988–1994)17 to contrast mean blood pressure measured in the home and the mobile examination center among participants aged 24–32 with valid blood pressure at both exams (n = 2949). To explore the effect of interview content, we used Add Health, Wave IV to contrast blood pressure after the full, 1.5-hour interview (Visit 1) and after the 5-minute, abbreviated interview (Visit 2) among the 100 participants examined twice in the reliability study, described below. The 1.5-hour interview contained questions regarding child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, and suicide, among other provocative topics, while the 5-minute interview did not.
This investigation also assessed validity and reliability of Add Health blood pressure measurements, beginning with digit preference. Overall and, sample-size permitting,18 field-interviewer-specific terminal digit preference of concordant double-entries was monitored using a Pearson χ2 test of the null hypothesis that all possible terminal digits (0,1,2,…9) were observed with equal frequency. Exact tests were implemented when the number of field-interviewer-specific participant observations was less than 50. Adjustments for multiple comparisons were made using the Bonferroni method by dividing the conventional alpha of 0.05 by (1) 6, in the overall analysis of the 3 systolic plus 3 diastolic BP measures and by (2) 6 × 323 = 1938, in the analysis of field-interviewer-specific systolic BP and diastolic BP measures. Calculation of a digit preference score (DPS) was also used to reduce Type I error otherwise inherent in identification of divergence from a uniform distribution of terminal digits at even modest sample sizes. , range: 0–100; where N = number of observations per FI and k = number of terminal digits. The identification of field-interviewer-specific digit preference (DPS ≥ 20) would suggest the possibility of data fabrication.19,20
Between December 2008 and July 2009, two technicians visually inspected the 292 monitor / cuff pairs returned from the field at study closure for damage, missing parts and electronic malfunction using a standardized data collection form and protocol.13 The technicians also reassessed accuracy of pressures measured using the adult and large-adult cuffs by applying them to rigid cylinders 28.5 and 37 cm in circumference, respectively, and connecting them in tandem to a factory-calibrated pressure meter (Netech DigiMano, Model 2000; Netech Corporation; Farmingdale, NY). Seven field monitors were excluded because no measurements could be obtained after three attempts. Because several monitors were returned with only a single cuff, the remaining 285 monitors produced only 548 monitor-cuff records of pressures over a range of 280 to 40 mm Hg in 20-unit decrements. At each of these thirteen meter pressures, accuracy was computed as the difference between the monitor and the meter pressure (bias, mm Hg) and its ratio with respect to the criterion standard (relative bias, % = 100 × bias / meter pressure).
Both measures were initially subjected to conventional Bland-Altman analyses.21 Subsequent bias analyses relied on a three-level, random-intercept model in which i, j and k denote the bias of the ith monitor pressure (level 1) measured by the jth cuff (level 2) and kth monitor (level 3). The basic model is given by:
where Yijk is bias (mm Hg) is β0–2 are fixed-effect parameter estimates, and γ1–2 and εijk are random effects. In this model, β0 is the intercept, Pijk is a vector of meter pressure categories (1–13), and Cijk is a vector of covariates including technician (0; 1), technician experience (mean 3.3; range 0–7 months), cuff size (adult; large adult), number of missing pressures per monitor / cuff pair (mean: 1.9; range: 0–12), and an indicator flagging monitor / cuff pair assessments in which a monitor had to be restarted to acquire otherwise missing data (56% of the time). The term γ1k is the random intercept at level 3, γ2j(k) the random intercept at level 2, and εijk the random error at level 1. All independent variables were centered at their means to simplify interpretation. We implemented all models in SAS® version 9.1 (SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, NC) using Proc Mixed and the restricted maximum likelihood method. Model results were used to adjust estimates of mean blood pressure and hypertension prevalence for bias in measurement of blood pressure under the assumption that measurement errors are normally distributed conditional on the true, error-free, but unknown blood pressure (eAppendix, http://links.lww.com).
In a separate quality-control study conducted over the course of field work, short-term reliability of blood pressure was assessed among a race/ethnicity- and sex-stratified random sample of 100 Add Health, Wave IV participants (mean age 29 yr; 50% female; 64% non-Hispanic white, 16% non-Hispanic black, 12% Hispanic/Latino, 8% other). The participants were examined twice, one to two weeks (mean: 8.5 days) apart. At each of the two examinations, systolic and diastolic BPs were measured following the protocol described above, typically by the same field interviewer (84% of participants) and at approximately the same time of day (mean absolute difference: 52 minutes; range 0–302 minutes).
A nested, random-effects model was first used to partition the variance of systolic BP (and separately, diastolic BP) into its components:
where Y is the blood pressure recorded by the ith FI (Fi) on the jth participant (Pj) within the kth visit (Vk) at the lth measure (Ml), μ is the intercept, and εijkl is the error. Based on this model, the terms of which are assumed to be independent, the total variance ( ) is:
where BF, BP, BV, BM, and WM indicate the between-field-interviewer, between-participant, between-visit, between-measure, and within-measure variances, the latter from the error term defined above. Because blood pressure measurement was automated and typically performed at both visits by the same field-interviewer, a simpler model was adopted, Yijk = μ+ Pi+Vj(Pi)+εijk, for which . This simplification was consistent with observations that between-field-interviewer variances made negligible contributions to (4% for systolic BP and 3% for diastolic BP). To facilitate comparison with exam center-based studies of cardiovascular disease, reliability was then computed as the ratio of the between-participant variance to total variance ( ), i.e. an intra-class correlation coefficient with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) computed using the delta method under the assumption of normality.22 The intra-class correlation coefficient represents the proportion of variance in blood pressure that is not due to measurement variance, and can be interpreted as the correlation between repeated measurements on the same individual. All models were implemented in SAS® 9.1 using Proc Mixed and the restricted maximum likelihood method.
Compared with NHANES, participants in Add Health were less likely to be foreign-born, uninsured, and have less than a high school education, and more likely to be obese (37% versus 28%, Table 1).
The prevalence of hypertension (defined as systolic BP/diastolic BP ≥ 140/90 mm Hg) was much higher in the Add Health, Wave IV population (19% [95% CI = 18%–20%]) compared with persons of the same age in the NHANES population (4% [2%–6%]). Nonetheless, self-reported history of hypertension among young adults was similar in Add Health (11% [95% CI = 10%–12%]) and NHANES (9% [7%–12%]) (Figure 1). Hence, approximately twice as many young adults in NHANES had self-reported versus measured hypertension, the reverse of the pattern found in Add Health. Among those with self-reported hypertension, approximately one-fifth of NHANES (versus one-half of Add Health) participants had elevated blood pressure by study measurement (data not shown).
Consistent differences between populations in mean systolic and diastolic BP (usually ≥ 10 mm Hg) and hypertension prevalence (usually ≥ 15%) were found in all sociodemographic subgroups, although the differences were smallest among normal-weight and underweight participants (Table 2). Survey weights and propensity for differential selection into Add Health versus NHANES (eTable 1; http://links.lww.com) failed to account for the between-study differences in mean blood pressure or hypertension prevalence (Table 3). The adjusted odds of hypertension in Add Health versus NHANES was 6.6 (95% CI = 4.0–11.0). Further adjustment for anti-hypertensive medication use had relatively little effect on the odds ratio, but reduced its precision due to small cell sizes.
Among NHANES III (1988–1994) participants aged 24–32 years who were examined twice, mean in-home and mobile-examination-center measures of systolic and diastolic BP were similar: 115 (95% CI = 114–116) and 72 (71–72) mm Hg versus 112 (111–113) and 71 (70–72) mm Hg, respectively. Among the 100 Add Health, Wave IV participants examined twice, mean systolic and diastolic BP after the 1.5-hour interview (Visit 1) and 5-minute interview (Visit 2) were also similar: 124 standard deviation (12) and 79 (10) versus 123 (13) and 77 (10) mm Hg, respectively.
Overall, there was little evidence of systematic blood pressure digit preference (eTable 2; http://links.lww.com). Although each diastolic BP measure was associated with a significant overall χ2 test (Bonferroni-corrected P < 8 × 10−3), all corresponding digit-preference-score values were < 20. Two (0.6%) of 323 field interviewers exhibited digit preference in one of six blood pressure measures (Bonferroni corrected P < 2 × 10−5; digit preference score > 20). Blood pressures from both of these field interviewers were excluded from all reported hypertension estimates (n = 227), although only one of them exhibited digit preference (P < 0.00001 for all six measures; digit preference score range, 33.8–42.0). When we reviewed this field interviewer's validity study data, we did not find equipment damage, missing parts, electronic malfunction, or atypical bias (range: −3.8 to 2.8 mm Hg). However, data collected by this field interviewer from 111 (< 1%) of the 14,800 participants with valid survey weights included an extreme excess of systolic and diastolic BP values equal to 120 and 70 mm Hg, respectively.
Bias in pressure measurement was approximately normal in its distribution, with a mean at 0 mm Hg (eFigure 1, http://links.lww.com). Bland-Altman 95% limits of agreement between the monitored and metered pressures were −13 and + 13 mm Hg. Although mean bias and relative bias approximated 0 at 140 and 160 mm Hg—well-known Joint National Committee 7 thresholds for the diagnosis of hypertension—they steadily increased at higher and lower pressures (eTable 3, http://link.lww.com). However, at the tested extremes (280 mm Hg and 40 mm Hg), mean bias remained less than 2 mm Hg and corresponding measures of relative bias never exceeded 4%. Moreover, absolute bias (i.e. the difference between monitor and meter pressures irrespective of its direction) did not exceed 2.2 mm Hg across the measured range of pressure.
Meter pressure was by far the strongest predictor of bias. As pressure increased from 40 mm Hg, bias steadily decreased, becoming significantly negative at approximately 150 mm Hg. The only other important predictor of bias was number of missing pressures. Each additional missing value was associated with a −0.15 mm Hg (standard error = 0.02) decrease in mean bias. A graph of the predicted mean bias versus meter pressure revealed inflection points at approximately 100 and 200 mm Hg, below and above which the slope of the bias-pressure association was relatively low compared with that at intermediate pressures (Figure 2).
Intra-class correlation coefficients and 95% CIs for the first, second, third, first through third, and mean of the second and third blood pressure measures were 0.65, 0.75, 0.66, 0.67 and 0.81, for systolic BP and 0.59, 0.60, 0.69, 0.63 and 0.68 for diastolic BP, respectively (eTable 4, http://links.lww.com). Accounting for the interval between visits (days) and difference in time of day (minutes) produced negligible changes in these estimates (data not shown).
In Add Health, the overall weighted mean systolic BP (range 74–223 mm Hg) and diastolic BP (range 30–147 mm Hg) fell in the pre-hypertensive and high normotensive categories. In Add Health, only 3% (95% CI = 3%–4%) had hypertension based solely on use of anti-hypertensive medication (Table 4). The prevalence of hypertension, however, increased four-fold when the definition of this disease was expanded by including history of being told by a health care professional that a participant had hypertension. The prevalence doubled yet again when the definition was broadened by incorporating stage 1 or 2 hypertension. These findings were similar to those found before excluding the two field interviewers exhibiting digit preference. Bias adjustment (Table 4) and exclusion of participants with undersized cuffs (i.e. arm circumference exceeded large adult cuff; n = 201) had small effects on estimates. A lack of concordance between the field interviewers and the participant on sex and race/ethnicity had negligible association with blood pressure (eTable 5, http://links.lww.com).
The prevalence of hypertension defined by medication use or self-reported history of hypertension was similar between Add Health (12%) and NHANES (10%). However, hypertension defined by medication use, history of hypertension or systolic BP/diastolic BP ≥140/90 mm Hg was twice as high in Add Health (26%) as in NHANES (12%) (Table 4).
Several national field studies have produced population-wide inferences regarding the prevalence of hypertension for older cohorts in the United States.23,24 However, few studies have described procedures for assuring and controlling quality of in-home blood pressure data collected by a large, centrally managed, national field staff using portable and affordable blood pressure monitors. The present report describes the methods used by Add Health, Wave IV (2008) to estimate the validity and reliability of blood pressure (digit preference; bias; intra-class correlation), and bias-adjusted prevalence of hypertension based on blood pressure data collected using the aforementioned methods.
The resulting estimates suggest that in Add Health, terminal digit preference of blood pressure is infrequent, bias is low, short-term reliability is good to excellent, and comparable to that found in well-known, exam center-based studies of cardiovascular disease.10,25,26 The estimates also suggest that, although the measured prevalence of hypertension (i.e. BP ≥ 140/90 mm Hg) is four- to-five-fold higher in Add Health, Wave IV (2008) than in NHANES (2007–2008) among participants aged 24–32, self-reported history of hypertension is similar in the two populations. Hence, the proportion of young adults in NHANES reporting a history of hypertension is twice that with measured hypertension (9% versus 4%), while the reverse holds in Add Health (11% versus 19%, see Figure 1). The Add Health findings are consistent with the expectation that blood pressure measurement will capture subclinical hypertension (i.e. hypertension unknown to otherwise healthy young people), and in doing so, will identify more measured than self-reported cases.
The striking between-survey difference exists despite examination of young adults in the same age range (24–32 years) during an overlapping time frame and despite Add Health's efforts to examine and account for numerous methodologic concerns. These concerns included the following: digit preference; validity; reliability; survey weights; differential selection; use of anti-hypertensive medications (important given a recent report documenting improvements in hypertension treatment and control27); consumption of food, caffeinated beverages, or smoking prior to blood pressure measurement; time of blood pressure measurement; measurement context; and interview content. Important between-survey differences in sampling frame and study design determine the distinct populations to which Add Health and NHANES findings are most appropriately inferred. These differences may help explain the observed discordance in hypertension prevalence between studies, without labeling either as incorrect. In Add Health, the appropriate inference is to persons who were adolescents in grades 7–12 in the U.S. during the 1994–95 school year, including those who subsequently joined the military or were institutionalized or incarcerated. In NHANES, the appropriate inference is to the U.S. civilian, non-institutionalized population during 2007–2008, one similar to that described by the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (2008),28 yet less likely than Add Health to include non-Hispanic white, native-born, better-educated, and health-insured persons (eTable 6, http://links.lww.com). Furthermore, Add Health includes participants who were waiting to have blood pressure measurements taken by a field interviewer in the participant's homes, whereas NHANES participants had to go to a mobile examination center for blood pressure measurement by physician examiners.
Although the differences in sampling frame and study design increase the possibility of divergent biases, directly standardizing rates of BP ≥ 140/90 mm Hg in Add Health Wave IV to the U.S. population aged 24–32 years based on race/ethnicity, foreign birth or education in the American Community Survey 2008 or NHANES 2007–2008 produced estimates (range: 18.6%, 19.6 %) that differed little from the overall unadjusted prevalence (18.6%–19.6% versus 19.1%; eTable 6; http://links.lww.com). Subgroup-specific rates and mean blood pressure were both higher in Add Health than in NHANES, even among those typically at lower risk of hypertension, e.g. the health-insured, better-educated and non-Hispanic whites. Propensity-scored estimates adjusting simultaneously for an array of salient study participant characteristics also diverged little from the unadjusted estimates. Furthermore, the adjusted odds of measured hypertension in Add Health was more than six times that in NHANES.
Robustness aside, estimated rates of hypertension approaching nearly one in five U.S. young adults raise questions about their biological plausibility. However, there is global precedent for such observations; for instance, among Latin American and Caribbean men aged 20–29, the rate of hypertension (defined as systolic/diastolic BP ≥ 140/90 or taking anti-hypertensive medications) is 28%.29 Though such high rates have not been described previously in the U.S., prior findings in the global context suggest that they are neither biologically implausible nor without epidemiologic precedent.
The large and unexplained differences between Add Health and NHANES merit further investigation. U.S. coronary heart disease mortality and policy models rely heavily on NHANES systolic BP distributions and, in some cases, on optimistic assumptions regarding relatively small decreases of 0–1 mm Hg per year in population mean systolic BP.30,31 Although consideration may well focus on between-study differences in measurement methods32,33 and observer bias, neither appears to be problematic insofar as NHANES blood pressure measurement is concerned.11,34 Indeed, sphygmomanometric and automated oscillometric blood pressure measures are much more similar among adult than pediatric populations.32,33,35
In a nationally representative field study, we investigated two important problems that can threaten the integrity of blood pressure measurements: lack of validity and reliability. This investigation is subject to several limitations. Under ideal circumstances, validity of blood pressure measurements would have been monitored on an ongoing basis throughout Wave IV of the Add Health study. Given the decentralized nature and geographic breadth of data collection, doing so was not practical. It also would have been useful to examine additional factors capable of affecting reliability of blood pressure, such as fasting status of participants or demographic mismatching of participants and field interviewers. However, the contribution of these factors to the reliability of blood pressure measurement was expected to be relatively small19 compared with the high cost of studying large enough sample sizes to provide adequate power for the examination of subgroup differences in reliability.
Finally, the proportion of Add-Health, Wave-IV participants defined as having hypertension on the basis of elevated blood pressure alone may have been affected by blood pressure measurement variation.36 The potential importance of this possibility is underscored by the similarity of the blood pressure monitor used in this study to a different monitor made by the same manufacturer, and its association with a standard deviation slightly higher than that of several other monitors examined in the literature.37,38 However, Add Health's blood pressure monitor was manufactured to meet U.S. and European standards. The British Hypertension Society validated the monitor, assigned it an A/A grading, and gave it their highest recommendation "for clinical and home use."39,40 Its precision, validity and reliability are documented here. In addition, the putative effect of measurement variability was attenuated in this context by obtaining and averaging multiple blood pressure readings, and by using an automatic oscillometric device, which has been associated with a decrease in terminal digit preference.41 Together, these findings suggest that measurement variation is unlikely to account for the observed magnitude of difference between populations. A small percentage of participants may have been taking anti-hypertensive medications for other indications. Medication history and inventory are nonetheless routinely used in health surveys like NHANES42 to help define hypertension.
Carefully standardized, in-home measurement using an inexpensive oscillometric monitor can produce valid and reliable estimates of blood pressure. Coupling Joint National Committee 7 classification14 of Add Health's valid, reliable and publicly available blood pressure data with the study's self-reported history of hypertension and inventory of anti-hypertensive medications allows researchers to study the epidemiology of hypertension in a nationally representative sample of young adults. The prevalence of hypertension among Add-Health Wave-IV participants indicates an unexpectedly high risk of cardiovascular disease among U.S. young adults and deserves further scrutiny.
FUNDING: This work was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P01-HD31921), with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations.
This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgment is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisle for assistance in the original design. Information on how to obtain the Add Health data files is available on the Add Health website (http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth).
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Discussion in 'Latest Tech News and Rumors' started by Danls92, Feb 16, 2008.
Everyone time we try to fix something, someone is there to screw it up. Thanks for the heads up Danls92.
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i was just to start a tread that it want working for some reason thank you danis92
I wonder what the SDK is going to be like.... No more jailbreak?
well, if that is true, then its a good prospect because that means that we can expectt apps that are veery much like the ones that you can get when you jailbreak. and probably some alright new ones-or rubbiish new ones.
Sounds like he got slapped for breaking his NDA.
Apple is cranky about that stuff. Been there, done that.
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