NHANES 2015-2016 Trace Elements
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2015-2016 Serum Copper, Selenium, and Zinc (2015–2016)
NHANES 2015-2016 overview: https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/continuousnhanes/overview.aspx?BeginYear=2015
Copper, selenium, and zinc codebook (CUSEZN_I): https://wwwn.cdc.gov/Nchs/Data/Nhanes/Public/2015/DataFiles/CUSEZN_I.htm
Demographics codebook (DEMO_I): https://wwwn.cdc.gov/Nchs/Data/Nhanes/Public/2015/DataFiles/DEMO_I.htm
Population
US civilian non-institutionalized population aged 6+, one-third subsample
Study Type
Cross-sectional nationally representative survey
About This Dataset
Serum copper, selenium, and zinc are not available in the NHANES 2017-2018 or 2017-March 2020 public laboratory files. LabNorms uses NHANES 2015-2016 CUSEZN_I for these serum trace elements. These analytes were measured in a one-third subsample, so LabNorms applies the file's published WTSA2YR subsample weight directly.
Limitations
- US population only (distributions may differ in other countries)
- Cross-sectional design cannot establish causal relationships
- One-third subsample yields smaller per-slice n than full MEC analytes
- Data from 2015-2016; distributions may have shifted in the intervening years
- Serum selenium is not interchangeable with whole-blood selenium from other NHANES files
Used for
Analytes
Panels
Demographic Slices
- Copper - Females, Age 20-29
- Copper - Females, Age 30-39
- Copper - Females, Age 40-49
- Copper - Females, Age 50-59
- Copper - Females, Age 60-69
- Copper - Females, Age 70+
- Copper - Males, Age 20-29
- Copper - Males, Age 30-39
- Copper - Males, Age 40-49
- Copper - Males, Age 50-59
- Copper - Males, Age 60-69
- Copper - Males, Age 70+
- Selenium (Serum) - Females, Age 20-29
- Selenium (Serum) - Females, Age 30-39
- Selenium (Serum) - Females, Age 40-49
- Selenium (Serum) - Females, Age 50-59
- Selenium (Serum) - Females, Age 60-69
- Selenium (Serum) - Females, Age 70+
- Selenium (Serum) - Males, Age 20-29
- Selenium (Serum) - Males, Age 30-39
- Selenium (Serum) - Males, Age 40-49
- Selenium (Serum) - Males, Age 50-59
- Selenium (Serum) - Males, Age 60-69
- Selenium (Serum) - Males, Age 70+
- Zinc - Females, Age 20-29
- Zinc - Females, Age 30-39
- Zinc - Females, Age 40-49
- Zinc - Females, Age 50-59
- Zinc - Females, Age 60-69
- Zinc - Females, Age 70+
- Zinc - Males, Age 20-29
- Zinc - Males, Age 30-39
- Zinc - Males, Age 40-49
- Zinc - Males, Age 50-59
- Zinc - Males, Age 60-69
- Zinc - Males, Age 70+