For advocates
A federal-data-backed burden number for testimony.
You can now bring a real, government-data-backed burden number to testimony or public comment — drawn straight from the CDC’s NHANES health survey, not a flat average that hides who carries the weight.
How you use it
- Circle a group on the map.Pick a burden group or a smaller slice of it, and Counted Health works out the numbers right in your browser — nothing you select or type is saved or sent anywhere.
- Export the evidence brief. A one-page, source-cited summary: how the share of people with a diagnosed chronic condition climbs from about 33 in 100 to about 72 in 100 across the five burden groups; the finding that the highest group is more than twice as likely to have a chronic condition as the lowest, even after accounting for age, sex, race, and weight; and every government dataset behind the number.
- Cite it with confidence.Every number traces back to open NHANES files; nothing is built from private or proprietary data. The groups sort people by how much their health is affected, not by diagnosis, and the survey was taken before COVID, so it documents everyday fatigue and functional burden — not Long COVID specifically.
What you get
A source-cited evidence brief written for testimony — the number, its margin of confidence, and every government dataset behind it, ready to export.
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The testimony number
The highest-burden group carries 2.45× the adjusted odds of a chronic condition versus the lowest-burden group (95% CI 1.92–3.12) — a survey-weighted climb from 33% to 72%.
Share with a chronic condition, by burden group
Across the full population, women are disproportionately represented in the highest-burden region (60% female vs roughly half overall).
- In a nationally representative federal survey, the share with a documented chronic condition rises from 33% to 72% across five burden groups — a real, measurable gradient, not anecdote.
- People at the high end carry 2.45× the adjusted odds of a chronic condition versus the lowest-burden group (95% CI 1.92–3.12), controlling for age, sex, race, and BMI.
- This is population evidence for testimony or public comment: the burden is countable, it is uneven, and it is documented in open federal data.
Sources
This is a burden-mapping pattern from population survey data, not a diagnosis, a cause, or a prediction for any one person.
Counted Health · countedhealth.com