imt: Intima Media Thickness of the Carotid Artery

In tlm: Effects under Linear, Logistic and Poisson Regression Models with Transformed Variables

Intima Media Thickness of the Carotid Artery

Description

Simulated data for intima media thickness of the carotid artery and age in 2784 adults.

Usage

imt

Format

A data.frame with 2784 observations on the following 3 variables:

age

age of the individual (years).

imt

intima media thickness of the carotid artery (mm).

logimt

logarithm of imt.

Details

Data were simulated to emulate true data pattern observed in a real study (see References).

Source

See References.

References

Rivera M et al. Association between long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and subclinical atherosclerosis: the REGICOR Study. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2013;121(2):223-230.

Examples

data(imt)
par(las = 1, mfrow = c(1, 2))
with(imt, plot(age, imt))
with(imt, plot(age, logimt))

tlm documentation built on April 4, 2025, 1:06 a.m.