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Quest Diagnostics Health Trends™ Laboratory Insights into America’s Health
Quest Diagnostics Health Trends™
Laboratory Insights into America’s Health
Quest Diagnostics Health Trends™Laboratory Insights into America’s Health
A series of reports from
Quest Diagnostics – the
world’s leading
diagnostic testing
company – on health
conditions affecting a
large number of
Americans
Chronic Kidney Disease
Gestational Diabetes
Heart Disease
H1N1 Influenza
Hypothyroidism in Pregnancy
Prescription Drug Misuse
Rotavirus
STDs in Pregnancy
Type 2 Diabetes
Workplace Wellness
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Quest Diagnostics Health Trends™Laboratory Insights into America’s Health
Studies based on the
company’s national repository
of de-identified results from
more than 1.5 billion patient
encounters since 2000
The largest private clinical laboratory
data repository in the U.S.
“The Quest Diagnostics database not only is larger than any of the existing research studies but also provides more current data.”
– Josef Coresh, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
(referring to health trends study on diabetes)
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Quest Diagnostics Health Trends™Laboratory Insights into America’s Health
Builds on Quest Diagnostics’
medical, scientific and health
informatics expertise …
• Approximately 800 MDs and PhDs
• Original research in peer-reviewed journals and at scientific conferences
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Quest Diagnostics Health Trends™Laboratory Insights into America’s Health
… and collaborations with
scientists from leading
institutions
American Diabetes Association
Johns Hopkins University
National Jewish Health
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York University
Alliance of Minority Medical Associations
The National Kidney Foundation
Harvard School of Public Health
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Quest Diagnostics Health Trends™Laboratory Insights into America’s Health
Published to inform health
care professionals, patients
and policymakers about the
status of the nation’s health
“The Quest Diagnostics Health Trends Report … represents people across the United States using a highly respected and standardized laboratory methodology.”
– Andrew H. Liu, M.D.
Associate ProfessorAllergy and Clinical
ImmunologyNational Jewish Health
(describing the company’s Allergies Across America report)
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Quest Diagnostics Health Trends™Laboratory Insights into America’s Health
Unique in scale and scope –
providing unprecedented
perspective on health issues
Allergies and asthma – 13.9 million tests
Gestational hypothyroidism – 502,000 tests
Chronic kidney disease – 6.2 million tests
H1N1 Influenza – 195,000 tests
Type 2 diabetes – 14.3 million tests
Gestational diabetes – 925,000 tests
Heart disease – 80 million tests
STDs (Chlamydia - gonorrhea) – 1.3 million tests
Workplace wellness – 261,000 tests
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Quest Diagnostics Health Trends™Laboratory Insights into America’s Health
Published in peer-reviewed
journals, at scientific
conferences and widely as a
public service
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American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy / Annual Meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
Obstetrics & Gynecology
PLoS One
Quest Diagnostics Health Trends™Laboratory Insights into America’s Health
Complements the Quest
Diagnostics Drug Testing
Index™, a benchmark for
national trends in workforce
drug positives since 1988
"The Drug Testing Index's findings further amplify the substance abuse success story of the past five years—we are effectively pushing back against illegal drug use."
– John Walters
Director of National Drug Control Policy, President Bush's "Drug Czar"
(commenting on the Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index)
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Quest Diagnostics Health Trends™Laboratory Insights into America’s Health
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