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NHMS Descriptive Statistics
Information on the composition of our study sample. Courtesy of Fryback et al. Reference article: The National Health Measurement Study: Simultaneous U.S. Norms for Six Generic Health-Related Quality-of-Life Instruments, Medical Care , December 2007.

NHMS Health Conditions
The overall prevalences represent weighted proportions of respondents self-reporting health conditions and smoking in the NHMS sample as a whole. However, the prevalences in the plots represent weighted proportions of individuals self-reporting health conditions and smoking within each age group.