NHANES: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)...
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NHANES

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National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Data

Description

This data is a small subset of the data collected within the 2011-2012 wave of the NHANES study, a study designed to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States, conduced by the National Center for Health Statistics.

Usage

data(NHANES)

Format

A data frame with 186 rows and 13 variables:

SBP: systolic blood pressure
gender: male or female
age: in years
race: race / Hispanic origin (5 categories)
WC: waist circumference in cm
alc: alcohol consumption (binary: <1 drink per week vs. >= 1 drink per week)
educ: educational level (binary: low vs. high)
creat: creatinine concentration in mg/dL
albu: albumin concentration in g/dL
uricacid: uric acid concentration in mg/dL
bili: bilirubin concentration in mg/dL
occup: occupational status (3 categories)
smoke: smoking status (3 ordered categories)

Note

The subset provided here was selected and re-coded to facilitate demonstration of the functionality of the JointAI package, and no clinical conclusions should be derived from it.

Source

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) (2011 - 2012). National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Data. URL https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/.