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- Published online September 1, 2011.
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- *General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
- †Health Systems Management & Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA
- ‡Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, AL
- §Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL
- Address correspondence to Paul Muntner, PhD, MHS, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1665 University Boulevard, Suite 230J, Birmingham, AL 35294, Tel: (205) 975-8077, Email: pmuntner{at}uab.edu
The protocol for NHANES III was approved by the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Institutional Review Board. All participants gave informed consent.
This work was supported by a K08 award from the US National Institutes of Health (HS15701-01A1).
The authors have no financial or proprietary interest in the subject matter of this article.