(14-06-11) Health across the life span in the United States and England.

Martinson ML, Teitler JO, Reichman NE.
Source
Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Wallace Hall, Princeton,
NJ 08544, USA. [email protected]
Abstract
This study systematically compared health indicators in the United States and
England from childhood through old age (ages 0-80 years). Data were from the
1999-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for the United
States (n = 39,849) and the 2003-2006 Health Survey for England (n = 69,084).
Individuals in the United States have higher rates of most chronic diseases and
markers of disease than their same-age counterparts in England. Differences at
young ages are as large as those at older ages for most conditions, including
obesity, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high cholesterol ratio, high
C-reactive protein, hypertension (for females), diabetes, asthma, heart attack
or angina (for females), and stroke (for females). For males, heart attack or
angina is higher in the United States only at younger ages, and hypertension is
higher in England than in the United States at young ages. The patterns were
similar when the sample was restricted to whites, the insured, nonobese,
nonsmoking nondrinkers, and specific income categories and when stratified by
normal weight, overweight, and obese weight categories. The findings from this
study indicate that US health disadvantages compared with England arise at
early ages and that differences in the body weight distributions of the 2
countries do not play a clear role.

Source: Am J Epidemiol. 2011 Apr 15;173(8):858-65. Epub 2011 Mar 9.

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