NHANES: NHANES

Description Usage Format Source References

Description

Dataset from The Third National Health and Nutrition Survey(NHANES III), 1988-1994, which contains information about socioeconomic background, medical record, dietary pattern, daily activities, and other health-related issues for respondents with high blood pressure (HBP) and of age 17 or older.

Usage

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Format

A tibble with 2482 observations on 23 variables:

white

an indicator for whether the she or he is non-Hispanic white

black

an indicator for whether she or he is black

hisp

an indicator for whether she or he is Hispanic

female

an indicator for whether the respondent is female

age_mo

age (in months)

hhsize

household size

edu

number of years of education completed

married

an indicator for whether she or he is married

widowed

an indicator for whether she or he is widowed

divorced

an indicator whether she or he is divorced

separated

an indicator for whether she or he is separated

income

logged annual household income

packyr

pack years (number of packs smoked everyday multiplied by number of years smoked)

bmi

body mass index ((mass (lb)∕height (in)2) × 703)

pulse

radial pulse rate (beats/min)

sodium

sodium intake (mg)

potassium

potassium intake (mg)

r_sodipota

sodium–potassium ratio

alcohol

alcohol intake (g)

insurance

an indicator for whether she or he has health insurance

together

the frequency of meeting with friends or relatives per year

ave_dbp

average diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)

trt_dbp

an indicator for whether she or he takes two or more anti-hypertensives

Source

https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/nhanes3/DataFiles.aspx

References

Dorie, V., M. Harada, N. B. Carnegie, and J. Hill (2016) A flexible, interpretable framework for assessing sensitivity to unmeasured confounding. Statistics in medicine 35(20), 3453–3470


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