National health study looks to Baltimore for data
The government team responsible for all those statistics about Americans’ health and eating habits are in Baltimore for the next several weeks collecting data – but officials say the turnout has been below average so far.
The CDC’s 50-year-old National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey randomly selected the city as one of 15 it will visit this year and sent out notices to hundreds of residents also chosen randomly. Officials want about 370 of them to come for comprehensive testing and surveying in their four-trailer clinic set up Harbor East.
Participants get thousands of dollars worth of tests taken and interpreted by doctors, so people can learn, for example, if they have asthma, diabetes, brittle bones and bad teeth. They a