Total White Blood Cell Counts for Persons Ages 1-74 Years ...

Total White Blood Cell

Counts for Persons

Ages 1-74 Years With

Differential

Leukbcyte

Counts for Ad&s

Ages 25-74 Years:

United States, 1971-75

This report presents white blood cell count

findings for persons ages 1-74 years and

differential leukocyte count findings for adults

ages 25-74 years, by age, sex, and race, from

the first National Health and Nutrition

Examination Survey: United States, 1971-75

Data From the National

Series 11, No. 220

DHHS Publication

Health Survey

No. (PHS) 82-1670

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Public Health Service

Office of Health Research, Statistics,

and Technology

National Center for Health Statistics

Hyattsville, Md.

January 1982

National Center for Health Statistics

Division of Data Services

DOROTHY P. RICE, Directo~

JAMES C. JACKS, Ph.D., Director

ROBERT A. ISRAEL, Deputy Director

DAVID L. LARSON, ChieJ Health Examination

Operations Branch

JACOB J. FELDMAN, Ph. D., Associate Director for Analysis

and Epidemiology

GAIL F. FISHER, Ph. D., Associate Director for the

Cooperative Health Statistics System

GARRIE J, LOSEE, Associate

Director

for Data Processing

Centers for Disease Control

Center for Infectious Diseases

Hematology Division

and Services

BRUCE L. EVATT, M.D., Director

ALVAN O. ZARATE, Ph. D., Assistant Director for

International Statistics

O. W. VAN ASSENDELFT, M.D., Ph.D., Chief

General Hematology Branch

E. EARL BRYANT, Associate

Examination

Director

for Interview

and

Cooperarl¡±onof the U.S. Bureau of the Census

Statistics

ROBERT C. HUBER, Associate Director for Management

MONROE G, SIRKEN, Ph. D., Associzte Director for Research

and Methodolo~

PETER L. HURLEY, Associate

Director

for Vital and Health

Cizre Statistics

ALICE HAYWOOD, information

Interview and Examimtion

Field

Officer

Statistics Program

E. EARL BRYANT, Associate

Director

MARY GRACE KOVAR, Spectil Assistant for Data Policy

and Analysis

Division of Health Examination

Statistics

ROBERT S. MURPHY, Director

SIDNEY ABR4114M, Chiefi Nutritional

Statistics Branch

KURT R. MAURER, Acting Chief Survey Planning and

Development Branch

In accordance

with specifications

established by the National

Center for Health Statistics, the U.S. Bureau of the Census, under a

contractual

agreement, participated

in the design and selection of the

sample and carried out the first stage of the field interviewing and

certain parts of the statistical processing.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to aclmowledge the work of Carol

Williams and Laurel MacDowell, formerly of the Health Examination Field Operations Branch, Division of Data Services,

National Center for Health Statistics, for their assistance in the

preparation of this manuscript. Tne authors are also grateful

for the advice of Marguerite Candler Ballard, M-S., M.D.,

Centers for Disease Control.

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Contents

...

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Highlights

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Data collection

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ill

1

1

1

Source ofdata,

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3

Background

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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3

Data base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3

Procedures

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5

blood cellcount

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5

bloodcell

8

Findings

White

Smoking

andthewhite

Differential

References

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leukocytecount

Discussion

count

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Listofdetailed

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tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Appendixes

1.

Statistical

Il.

Definitions

ofcertain

termsused

inthis

repoti

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111. Data collection

methodology.

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lV.

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7

Quality

1. Estimated

control

mean white

blood cell count bysex,

2.

Estimated

meanwhile

blood cell count bvraceand

age, and examination

3.

Estimated

mean white

blood cell count formales

4.

Estimated

mean white

blood cell count for females

age: Unitd

byraceand

by race andage:

Estimated

mean white

blood cell count forwhite

6.

Estimated

mean white

blood cell count for black persons bysexand

7.

Estimated

mean percent

8.

Estimated

1971-75

9.

Estimated

1971-75

10.

Estimated

United

mean

number

of segmented

personsbysexand

neutrophils

neutrophils

and lymphocytes

United

l97l-74.

age: United

5.

ofsegmented

sample:

States,

States,

United

States,

. . . . . . . . . .

l97l-74

States,

1971-74

age: LJnited States,

1971-74

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

age: United

l97l-74.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

byrace

and lymphocytes

States,

and age: United

for white

Statesr 1971-75.

. . . . . . . .

persons by sex and age: United

number

of segmented

neutrophils

and Lymphocytes

for black

persons by sex and age: United

percent

distribution

1971-75

of the

U.S.

population

ages 25-74

years

by mean

number

of segmented

8:

10

11

States,

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

States,

7

Statesr

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

mean

6

11

neutrophils:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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