sábado, 8 de enero de 2011

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* 2008 Assisted Reproductive Technology Success Rates: National Summary and Fertility Clinic Reports
In this report 148,055 ART cycles were performed at 436 reporting clinics in the United States during 2008, resulting in 46,326 live births (deliveries of one or more living infants) and 61,426 infants.


full-text, pdf, 15MB, 565 pages:
http://www.cdc.gov/ART/ART2008/PDF/ART_2008_Full.pdf



** Births: Preliminary Data for 2009
This report presents preliminary data for 2009 on births in the United States. U.S. data on births are shown by age, live-birth order, race, and Hispanic origin of mother. The 2009 preliminary number of US births declined 3 percent from 2008, to 4,131,019.


full-text, pdf, 0,5MB, 29 pages:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr59/nvsr59_03.pdf



*** Blood Lead and Mercury Levels in Pregnant Women in the United States, 2003–2008
In general, U.S. pregnant women have low levels of lead in their blood. Pregnant women have lower mercury and lead levels than nonpregnant women. Among pregnant women, mercury levels, but not lead levels, increase with age.


full-text:
Products - Data Briefs - Number 52 - December 2010



**** Depression Affects 1 in 10 U.S. Adults
This study found the following groups to be more likely to meet criteria for major depression: persons 45-64 years of age, women, blacks, Hispanics, non-Hispanic persons of other races or multiple races, persons with less than a high school education, those previously married, individuals unable to work or unemployed, and persons without health insurance coverage.


full-text:
CDC Data & Statistics | Feature: Depression Affects 1 in 10 US Adults



***** HIV/AIDS among Hispanics/Latinos
While Hispanic/Latino women represented a quarter (24%) of new infections among Hispanics/Latinos in 2006, their rate of HIV infection was nearly four times that of white women (14.4/100,000 vs. 3.8/100,000).


full-text:
HIV among Hispanics/Latinos | Hispanic/Latinos | CDC HIV/AIDS



****** How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease: A Report of the Surgeon General
The 2010 Surgeon General's report contains important new information on how tobacco smoke causes disease and explains why it is crucial to stop smoking and avoid secondhand smoke. The report explains how smoking harms reproduction and children's health. It discusses how smoking reduces a woman's chance of getting pregnant and how it can increase the risk for pregnancy complications, premature delivery, low birth weight infants, stillbirth, and sudden infant death syndrome.


full-text:
Smoking and Tobacco Use :: 2010 Surgeon General's Report :: Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) :: CDC



******* National Hospital Discharge Survey: 2006 Annual Summary
This report presents 2006 national estimates and selected trend data on the use of nonfederal short-stay hospitals in the United States. An estimated 34.9 million inpatients were discharged from nonfederal short-stay hospitals in 2006. For females, results include - Over one-half of all deliveries resulted in a length of stay of 2 or fewer days. The rate of episiotomies per 100 vaginal deliveries decreased from 43.2 in 1996 to 16.0 in 2006.


full-text:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_13/sr13_168.pdf



******** Recent Trends in Births and Fertility Rates Through June 2010
The provisional count of births in the United States for the 12-month period ending with June 2010 fell 3 percent to 4,055,000 from the provisional count for the 12-month period ending with June 2009. This continues a decline in the number of births from an all-time high of 4,316,233 in 2007.


full-text:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/births2010/births2010.pdf



********* Seasonal Influenza and 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Pregnant Women - 10 States, 2009-10 Influenza Season
To estimate influenza vaccination coverage among pregnant women during the 2009--10 influenza season, CDC analyzed data from 10 states from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System . This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which determined that vaccination coverage for pregnant women among the 10 states combined was 50.7% for seasonal influenza and 46.6% for 2009 H1N1.


full-text:
Seasonal Influenza and 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Pregnant Women --- 10 States, 2009--10 Influenza Season



********** The 1999–2007 United States Cancer Statistics: Incidence and Mortality Web-based Report
This year's report features information on more than one million invasive cancer cases diagnosed during 2007 among residents of 49 states, six metropolitan areas, and the District of Columbia—geographic areas in which about 99% of the U.S. population reside.


full-text:
Cancer - NPCR - USCS - View Data Online



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