[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 7, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17744-17745]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-7895]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; the Jackson Heart 
Study (JHS)

    Summary: Under the provisions of Section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood 
Institute (NHLBI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has 
submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for 
review and approval the information collection listed below. This 
proposed information collection was previously published in the Federal 
Register on January 13, 2010, page 1789, and allowed 60 days for public 
comment. No comments were received. The purpose of this notice is to 
allow an additional 30 days for public comment. The National Institutes 
of Health may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent is not 
required to respond to, an information collection that has been 
extended, revised, or implemented

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on or after October 1, 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB 
control number.
    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 
contacting next-of-kin and family physicians of deceased participants 
who were part of the Jackson Heart Study exam. 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, followed by a more comprehensive Exam 3 that 
began 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: Adults; doctors and staff of 
hospitals and nursing homes. The annual reporting burden is as follows: 
Estimated Number of Respondents: 400; Estimated Number of Responses per 
Respondent: 1.0; Average Burden Hours per Response: (84 hours/400 
respondents) 0.20; and Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours Requested: 
84. The annualized cost to respondents is estimated at $3,760, assuming 
$15 per burden hour for informants and $65 per burden hour for 
physicians. 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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    Total.......................................             400  ..............  ..............              84
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    Request for Comments: Written comments and/or suggestions from the 
public and affected agencies should address one or more of the 
following points: (1) Evaluate 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) Evaluate 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) Enhance the 
quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and 
(4) 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.
    Direct Comments to OMB: Written comments and/or suggestions 
regarding the item(s) contained in this notice, especially regarding 
the estimated public burden and associated response time, should be 
directed to the: Office of Management and Budget, Office of Regulatory 
Affairs, [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974, 
Attention: Desk Officer for NIH. 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 30 days 
of the date of this publication.

Suzanne Freeman,
NHLBI Project Clearance Liaison, National Institutes of Health.
Michael Lauer,
Director, DCVS, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. 2010-7895 Filed 4-6-10; 8:45 am]
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