Hispanic Community Health Study / Study of Latinos

This variable checks for medical history of stroke, mini-stroke or TIA, or balloon angioplasty or surgery to the arteries in the neck.

This variable combines the self-reports of coronary revascularization or heart attack.

This variable combines the self-reports of coronary revascularization or heart attack.

This variable describes the diagnoses of diabetes and whether it was diagnosed before baseline, not diagnosed before baseline but possibly detected from lab data, or as non-diabetic.

This variable describes the stages of diabetes.

This variable describes the stages of diabetes based on American Diabetes Association definition.

This variable is based on the Diabetes variable (version 2) stages of diabetes based on American Diabetes Association definition.

This variable describes the stages of diabetes based on American Diabetes Association definition with an additional self-report criterion.

This variable assesses diabetes using variable diabetes3 and medication use based on variables muea33c and med_antidaib.

This variable describes the stages of diabetes.

This variable indicates a self-report of diabetes.

This variable indicates controlled diabetes. Defined only for diabetics.

This variable defines grouped categories for the number of times a participant has visited the doctor in the last 12 months.

This variable is defined for participants whose blood pressure are below the cutoff of 140/90 (both systolic and diastolic must be less than the cutoff values) for those who were defined as having hypertension using the NHANES definition only and also indicated whether or not they were receiving treatment for hypertension.

Hypertension is defined here if the systolic or diastolic blood pressure is greater than or equal to 140/90 or if the participant is currently taking antihypertensive medications.

Hypertension is defined here using the following NHANES definition: if the systolic or diastolic blood pressure is greater than or equal to 140/90 or if the participant self-reported as currently taking antihypertensive medications.

This variable classifies participants into 4 categories based on hypertension and hypertensive.

This variable is defined by the participant's self-report awareness of hypertension and self-report use of antihypertensive medications for those who were defined as having hypertension using the NHANES definition only.

The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) definition emphasizes central obesity because it is 'independently' associated with each of the other metabolic syndrome components, as well as insulin resistance.

The following definition of metabolic syndrome is based on the updated Adult Treat Panel III (ATP III) of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) guidelines.

This variable incorporates the original variable mets_ncep definition with changes to include self-reported medication use instead of scanned/transcribed medication use.

This variable checks some ECG measures to detect possible old MIs.

The HCHS/SOL used a comprehensive full mouth examination protocol examining six sites per tooth in up to 28 teeth yielding up to 168 sites per person. For the purpose of this study, four outcome measures were reported based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Periodontology (CDC/AAP) case definition of periodontitis at four severity thresholds. These classifications are designed for population-based surveillance of periodontal disease and are based on measures of clinical periodontal clinical attachment level (CAL) and probing pocket depth (PD).

The NIDCR cites the prevalence of periodontal disease based on dental examination probing measurements. To be classified as having periodontal disease there is at least one toother with Attachment Loss (AL) 3mm or greater and Pocket Depth (PD) 4mm or greater.

This is an additional method of describing the extent of disease in the mouth.

This variable combines ECG reports of possible old MI as well as self-report of angina, heart attack, or procedure (angioplasty, stent, bypass).

This variable combines ECG reports of possible old MI as well as self-report of heart attack, or procedure (angioplasty, stent, bypass).

This variable checks for self-report medical history of stroke.

This variable checks for medical history or mini-stroke or TIA.