bloodfat: Blood data for patients with narrowing arteries

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Blood data for patients with narrowing arteries

Description

Data were collected on the concentration of plasma cholesterol and plasma triglycerides (mg/dl) for 371 male patients evaluated for chest pain. For 51 of those patients, no evidence of heart disease was found. This subset corresponds to the remaining 320 patients for which there was evidence of narrowing arteries.

Usage

data(bloodfat)

Format

A data frame containing the following variables:

Cholesterol

Concentration of plasma cholesterol [mg/dl].

Triglycerides

Concentration of plasma triglycerides [mg/dl].

Source

Hand D.J., Daly F., Lunn A., McConway A. (1994). A Handbook of Small Data Sets. Londen: Chapman and Hall, dataset 277.

References

Scott D.W., Gotto A.M., Cole J.S., Gorry G.A. (1978). Plasma lipids as collateral risk factors in coronary artery disease: a study of 371 males with chest pain. Journal of Chronic Diseases, 31, 337–345.

Examples

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