COSTA MESA, Calif.—Randomly selected Orange County residents participated in a nationwide health survey Feb. 3 at the OC Fair and Event Center.
The county is one of 15 in the United States chosen to participate in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) voluntary National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, which combines interviews and physical examinations to document the health of around 5000 adults and children nationwide each year.
“We are so happy and so thrilled to have this amount of work because we know that it is going to be important for us, but on the same line, we cannot do [this] without the support of our local partners and without the support of our local participants,” Dr. Tony Nguyen, chief medical officer of the survey and U.S Public Health Service captain, told onsite media….