Healthy Behavior Adherence: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2016.

Introduction: Leading public health institutions recommend participation in several evidence-based behaviors, including exercise, a healthy diet, and maintenance of a normal BMI while simultaneously avoiding cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol consumption. The investigators attempted to evaluate the collective adherence to these recommendations and population trends in these behaviors by evaluating nationally representative surveys over a period of 12 years.

Methods: In 2019, the data from 26,194 National Health and Examination Survey participants who provided answers to survey questions regarding diet, physical activity, and usage of cigarettes and alcohol were analyzed.

Multiple genes for essential-hypertension susceptibility on chromosome 1q.

Essential hypertension, defined as elevated levels of blood pressure (BP) without any obvious cause, is a major risk factor for coronary heart disease, stroke, and renal disease. BP levels and susceptibility to development of essential hypertension are partially determined by genetic factors that are poorly understood. Similar to other efforts to understand complex, non-Mendelian phenotypes, genetic dissection of hypertension-related traits employs genomewide linkage analyses of families and association studies of patient cohorts, to uncover rare and common disease alleles, respectively.