The National Health Interview Survey is a cross-sectional household interview survey. Sampling and interviewing are continuous throughout each year. The sampling plan follows a multistage area probability design that permits the representative sampling of households and noninstitutional group quarters (e.g., college dormitories). NHIS addresses topics such as health status, use of health services,...

The Nurses' Health Studies (NHS) are long-running, questionnaire-based studies on women's health. The study was initiated in 1976 with the NHS cohort. The initial studies focus on cancer, cardiovascular disease and risk factors for chronic health issues in women. The latest cohort, NH3, has been expanded to include both male and female registered nurses and nursing students. Survey and biospecimen...

The NYC Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is a subset of the national YRBS conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This survey monitors priority health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of mortality, morbidity, and social problems among youth in New York City. Students complete a self-administered, anonymous questionnaire that measures a variety of behaviors,...

Data from the ongoing NYU Women's Health Study include biospecimens and survey data with variables concerning health conditions, reproductive history, and dietary habits. Between 1985 and 1991, the NYU Women's Health Study enrolled 14,274 women between the ages of 35 and 65 years old at the Guttman Breast Diagnostic Institute in New York City for a study of endogenous hormones, diet, and risk of breast...

The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) collects information about six types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults in the United States, including: (1) Behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence; (2) Sexual behaviors related to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitting diseases, including...

Researchers collected data in the South Bronx to determine the impact of government-subsidized supermarkets in high-need areas on food availability and dietary habits. Data was collected in Morrisania, a community in the South Bronx where the government-subsidized New York City FRESH Program supermarket was opened and in Highbridge, a comparison community in the South Bronx that does not have a similar...

Data from the Examining Norms and Behaviors Linked to Eating (ENABLE) project was collected via a mixed-methods approach. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 low-income Chinese-American three-generation families to collect information on attitudes and beliefs on the consumption of healthy food items (e.g. fruits, vegetables, brown rice, and low sodium products) and the behaviors of...

This dataset contains dietary information collected from 83 children aged 8-12 from two New York City public schools in partnership with Common Threads. Chinese-American students were identified by surname (n=22) for comparison with non-Chinese peers (n=61). Participating students completed two short surveys and dietary assessments between January and June 2017 at 6-month intervals. The dietary assessments...

The Upstate New York Infant Development Screening (Upstate KIDS) Study is a collaboration between the New York State Department of Health, University at Albany, and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The study includes information from over 5,034 mothers and their 6,171 children in New York State, excluding New York City, who were recruited...

Between August 2017 and April 2019, 303 women in their first or second gestational trimester were enrolled in an interventional randomized controlled trial to investigate the outcomes associated with dietary plans with different proportions of total carbohydrates. Eligible women were aged 18 to 45 years old who did not have a high risk pregnancy, chronic renal disease, cancer, congestive heart failure,...