Laboratory Insights into
America’s Health

Quest Diagnostics Health Trends™
Laboratory Insights into America’s Health
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 Professor
Allergy and Clinical
Immunology
National 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
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
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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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