height_immunity: Data on the relationship between immune system functioning...
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Data from a study relating innate (complement & lysozyme activity, neutrophil function) and adaptive (lymphocyte count, IgA, IgG and vaccine responce) to height. The subjects were a group of Polish volunteers.

1	data("height_immunity")

A data frame with 193 observations on the following 16 variables.

sex: Subject sex
age: Age in years
body.height: Height in mm
BMI: Body Mass Index
body_fat: Percent body fat
testosterone: Free testosterone titre
complement: Complement activity
lysozyme: Lysozyme activity
phagocytic: Phagocytic uptake
ROS: Reactive Oxygen Species production
IgA: Immunoglobulin A levels
IgG: Immunoglobulin G levels
CD3: CD3 lymphocytes
CD19: CD19 lymphocytes
flu_post_vaccination_response: Antibody response to 'flu vaccination
tetanus_post_vaccination_response: Antibody response to tetanus vaccination

Pawlowski, Boguslaw et al. (2017), Data from: Body height and immune efficacy: testing body stature as a signal of biological quality, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2vn0d

Drulis-Kawa, Z. (2017) Body height and immune efficacy: testing body stature as a signal of biological quality. Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 284: 0171372