[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 206 (Wednesday, October 25, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62476-62477]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-17898]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Proposed Collection; Comment Request; The Jackson Heart Study 
(JHS)

SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, for opportunity for public comment 
on proposed data collection projects, the National Heart, Lung, and 
Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will 
publish periodic summaries of proposed projects to be submitted to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval.

Proposed Collection

    Title: The Jackson Heart Study: Annual Follow-up with Third Party 
Respondents.
    Type of Information Collection Request: Revision of a currently 
approved collection (OMB NO. 0925-0491).
    Need and Use of Information Collection: This project involves 
annual follow-up by telephone of participants in the JHS study, review 
of their medical records, and interviews with doctors and family to 
identify disease occurrence. Interviewers will contact doctors and 
hospitals to ascertain participants' cardiovascular events. Information 
gathered will be used to further describe the risk factors, occurrence 
rates, and consequences of cardiovascular disease in African American 
men and women. Recruitment of 5,500 JHS participants began in September 
2000 and was completed in March 2004. 5,302 participants completed a 
baseline Exam 1 that included demographics, psychosocial inventories, 
medical history, anthropometry, resting and ambulatory blood pressure, 
phlebotomy and 24-hour urine collection, ECG, echocardiography, and 
pulmonary function. JHS Exam 2 began September 26 2005, with a more 
comprehensive Exam 3 beginning in February 2009. The two new exams 
include some repeated measures from Exam 1 and several new components, 
including distribution of self-monitoring blood pressure devices. The 
continuation of the study allows continued assessment of subclinical 
coronary disease, left ventricular dysfunction, progression of carotid 
atherosclerosis and left ventricular hypertrophy, and responses to 
stress, racism, and discrimination as well as new components such as 
renal disease, body fat distribution and body composition, and 
metabolic consequences of obesity.
    Frequency of Response: One-time.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households; Businesses or other for 
profit; not-for-profit institutions.
    Type of Respondents: Middle aged and elderly adults; doctors and 
staff of hospitals and nursing homes. The annual reporting burden is as 
follows:
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 600;
    Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.0;
    Average Burden Hours per Response: 0.5; and
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours Requested: 300.
    The annualized cost to respondents is estimated at $6,500. There 
are no Capital Costs to report. There are no Operating or Maintenance 
Costs to report.

                                         Estimate of Annual Hour Burden
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                                                     Number of     Frequency of    Average  time    Annual hour
                Type of response                    respondents      response      per  response      burden
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Morbidity & Mortality AFU 3rd Party/Next-of-kin              200               1            0.17              34
 decedents......................................
Morbidity & Mortality AFU 3rd Party Physicians..             200               1            0.25              50
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    Request for Comments: Written comments and/or suggestions from the 
public and affected agencies are invited on one or more of the 
following points: (1) Whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the function of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) The 
accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed 
collection of information, including the validity of the methodology 
and assumptions used; (3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 
clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) Ways to minimize 
the burden of the collection of information on those who are to 
respond, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, 
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms 
of information technology.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and 
instruments, contact Ms. Cheryl Nelson, Project Officer, NIH, NHLBI, 
6701 Rockledge Drive, MSC 7934, Bethesda, MD 20892-7934, or call non-
toll-free number 301-435-0451 or E-mail your request, including your 
address to: [email protected].
    Comments Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection 
are best assured of having their full effect if received within 60-days 
of the date of this publication.


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    Dated: October 18, 2006.
Suzanne Freeman,
NHLBI Project Clearance Liaison, National Institutes of Health.
    Dated: September 26, 2006.
Peter Savage,
Acting Director, DPPS, National Institutes of Health.
 [FR Doc. E6-17898 Filed 10-24-06; 8:45 am]
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