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Tue 7 Dec, 2010 12:41 am
NHANES = a yearly household survey combined with a physical examination of a representative sample of the US population?
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The authors drew on 1999-2004 data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a yearly household survey combined with a physical examination of a representative sample of the US population.
@oristarA,
It means this...NHANES = N.H.A.N.E.S. =
National
Health
and
Nutrition
Examination
Survey
But it also does = what you have said, As that is a descriptive term of what NHANES is...or stands for...