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Do body fat and exercise modulate vitamin D status?Anne C Looker
National Center for Health StatisticS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3311 Toledo Road, Room 4310, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Nutr Rev 65:S124-6. 2007
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D status of the US population: 1988-1994 compared with 2000-2004Anne C Looker
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 88:1519-27. 2008..Changes in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentrations in the US population have not been described...- Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D status of adolescents and adults in two seasonal subpopulations from NHANES IIIAnne C Looker
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Room 900, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Bone 30:771-7. 2002..Of particular interest is that insufficiency occurred fairly frequently in younger individuals, especially in the winter/lower latitude subsample. Our findings support continued monitoring of this vitamin in the U.S. population... - Impact of increased overweight on the projected prevalence of osteoporosis in older womenA C Looker
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Room 4201, 3311 Toledo Rd, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Osteoporos Int 18:307-13. 2007..Higher body weight is associated with higher bone density, so our goal was to estimate whether the higher prevalence of overweight is likely to reduce osteoporosis among older women... - Interaction of science, consumer practices and policy: calcium and bone health as a case studyAnne C Looker
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
J Nutr 133:1987S-1991S. 2003..There are certain conditions, such as lactation, during which calcium intake does not appear to influence bone. Other factors that may influence the effect of calcium on bone include bone-specific genotypes and physical activity... - Maternal history of osteoporosis and femur geometryA C Looker
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Calcif Tissue Int 75:277-85. 2004.... - Body fat and vitamin D status in black versus white womenAnne C Looker
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, USA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 90:635-40. 2005..This complex relationship may explain why differences in obesity do not appear to play a major role in explaining variation in serum 25(OH)D by race... 
Lumbar spine bone mineral density in US adults: demographic patterns and relationship with femur neck skeletal statusA C Looker
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Room 4310, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Osteoporos Int 23:1351-60. 2012..Prevalence of low spine BMD and agreement between the prevalence of low BMD at the spine and femur neck in older adults are also assessed...- Changes in femur neck bone density in US adults between 1988-1994 and 2005-2008: demographic patterns and possible determinantsA C Looker
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Room 4310, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Osteoporos Int 23:771-80. 2012..FNBMD was higher in NHANES 2005-2008 than in NHANES III, but between-survey differences varied by age, sex, and race/ethnicity. The likelihood that FNBMD has improved appears strongest for older white women... - Jogging and bone mineral density in men: results from NHANES IIIM E Mussolino
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, 6525 Belcrest Rd, Suite 730, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Am J Public Health 91:1056-9. 2001..This cross-sectional population-based study assessed the association of jogging with femoral bone mineral density (BMD) in men... - Hypovitaminosis D prevalence and determinants among African American and white women of reproductive age: third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994Kelley S Scanlon
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta 30341-3717, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 76:187-92. 2002..The determinants of hypovitaminosis D among women should be considered when these women are advised on dietary intake and supplement use... - Age, gender, and race/ethnic differences in total body and subregional bone densityA C Looker
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Osteoporos Int 20:1141-9. 2009..Cross-sectional age patterns in bone mineral density (BMD) of older adults differed at skeletal sites that varied by degree of weight-bearing... - Hip fracture risk in older US adults by treatment eligibility status based on new National Osteoporosis Foundation guidanceA C Looker
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rm 4310, 3311 Toledo Rd, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Osteoporos Int 22:541-9. 2011.... - Does body size account for gender differences in femur bone density and geometry?A C Looker
National Center for Health StatisticS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland, USA
J Bone Miner Res 16:1291-9. 2001..These differences may contribute importantly to lower fracture risk in men... - Prevalence and trends in low femur bone density among older US adults: NHANES 2005-2006 compared with NHANES IIIAnne C Looker
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
J Bone Miner Res 25:64-71. 2010..Thus, despite the decline in prevalence, the estimated number of affected older adults in 2005-2006 remained high... - Multiple imputation of missing dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry data in the National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyNathaniel Schenker
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD, USA
Stat Med 30:260-76. 2011..Moreover, multiple imputation usually yields larger estimated standard errors than those obtained with single imputation... - Comparisons of percentage body fat, body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-stature ratio in adultsKatherine M Flegal
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 89:500-8. 2009..Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and the waist-stature ratio (WSR) are considered to be possible proxies for adiposity... - Unexplained decline in the prevalence of anemia among US children and women between 1988-1994 and 1999-2002Sarah E Cusick
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 88:1611-7. 2008..The current anemia burden among US preschool children and women of childbearing age has not been documented... - Assessment of iron deficiency in US preschool children and nonpregnant females of childbearing age: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003-2006Mary E Cogswell
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 89:1334-42. 2009..A new index to determine body iron promises a simpler approach to monitoring iron deficiency (ID) prevalence... - Depression and bone mineral density in young adults: results from NHANES IIIMichael E Mussolino
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, 3311 Toledo Road, Room 6431, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA
Psychosom Med 66:533-7. 2004..The purpose of this cross-sectional population-based study was to assess the association of major depressive episode (MDE) and dysthymia with bone mineral density (BMD) in young adults... - Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and hip fracture risk in older U.S. white adultsAnne C Looker
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland, USA
J Bone Miner Res 23:143-50. 2008.... - Evaluation of an automated soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) assay on the Roche Hitachi analyzer and its comparison to two ELISA assaysChristine M Pfeiffer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA 30345, USA
Clin Chim Acta 382:112-6. 2007..Soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) assays are currently not standardized. This hinders data comparison between studies and also affects the use of a recently proposed model to estimate body iron... - HFE genotype and transferrin saturation in the United StatesMary E Cogswell
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
Genet Med 5:304-10. 2003..Examine the penetrance (defined by high transferrin saturation [TS]) of C282Y and H63D in the U.S. population... - Prospective study of serum vitamin D and cancer mortality in the United StatesD Michal Freedman
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Executive Plaza South Rm 7036, 6120 Executive Blvd, Bethesda, MD 20892 7238, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 99:1594-602. 2007..Epidemiologic studies of the association of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] and the risk of cancer, however, have been largely limited to incident cancers at a few sites... - Osteoporosis assessment by whole body region vs. site-specific DXAL Joseph Melton
Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First Street S.W, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
Osteoporos Int 16:1558-64. 2005.... - Age trends in femur stresses from a simulated fall on the hip among men and women: evidence of homeostatic adaptation underlying the decline in hip BMDThomas J Beck
Department of Radiology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Bone Miner Res 21:1425-32. 2006..Expansion of femur outer diameter seems to counter net bone loss so that stresses remain similar across age groups, but stresses are higher in older women than in older men... - The skeleton, race, and ethnicityAnne C Looker
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 87:3047-50. 2002 - Iron-status indicatorsSarah E Cusick
Pediatrics 121:651-2; author reply 652. 2008 - Prevalence, family history, and prevention of reported osteoporosis in U.S. womenJulie Robitaille
CDC, The National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:47-54. 2008..S. women, examine whether osteoporosis risk factors account for this relationship, and evaluate the likelihood that women at high risk of osteoporosis due to family history report preventive behaviors...