Diabetes: Diabetes data of Dr John Schorling

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Diabetes data of Dr John Schorling

Description

These data are courtesy of Dr John Schorling, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine. The data consist of 19 variables on 403 subjects from 1046 subjects who were interviewed in a study to understand the prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and other cardiovascular risk factors in central Virginia for African Americans. According to Dr John Hong, Diabetes Mellitus Type II (adult onset diabetes) is associated most strongly with obesity. The waist/hip ratio may be a predictor in diabetes and heart disease. DM II is also agssociated with hypertension - they may both be part of "Syndrome X". The 403 subjects were the ones who were actually screened for diabetes. Glycosolated hemoglobin > 7.0 is usually taken as a positive diagnosis of diabetes.

Format

A data frame with 205 observations on the following 12 variables.

id

subject id

chol

Total Cholesterol

stab.glu

Stabilized Glucose

hdl

High Density Lipoprotein

ratio

Cholesterol/HDL Ratio

glyhb

Glycosolated Hemoglobin

location

a factor with levels (Buckingham,Louisa)

age

age (years)

gender

male or female

height

height (inches)

height.europe

height (cm)

weight

weight (pounds)

weight.europe

weight (kg)

frame

a factor with levels (small,medium,large)

bp.1s

First Systolic Blood Pressure

bp.1d

First Diastolic Blood Pressure

bp.2s

Second Diastolic Blood Pressure

bp.2d

Second Diastolic Blood Pressure

waist

waist in inches

hip

hip in inches

time.ppn

Postprandial Time when Labs were Drawn in minutes

AgeGroups

Categorized age

BMI

Categorized BMI

References

Willems JP, Saunders JT, DE Hunt, JB Schorling: Prevalence of coronary heart disease risk factors among rural blacks: A community-based study. Southern Medical Journal 90:814-820; 1997 Schorling JB, Roach J, Siegel M, Baturka N, Hunt DE, Guterbock TM, Stewart HL: A trial of church-based smoking cessation interventions for rural African Americans. Preventive Medicine 26:92-101; 1997.

Examples

data(Diabetes)

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