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framinghamR Documentation

Framingham heart study data extract on smoking and hypertension.

Description

Data collected over a 24 year study suitable for competing risks survival analysis of hypertension and death as a function of smoking.

Format

A data frame with 2316 rows and 11 columns:

female

Sex of the patient. 1=female, 0=male.

totchol

Total cholesterol of patient at study entry.

age

Age of the patient at study entry.

bmi

Patient body mass index.

BPVar

Average units of systolic and diastolic blood pressure above normal: ((SystolicBP-120)/2) + (DiasystolicBP-80)

heartrte

Patient heartrate taken at study entry.

glucose

Patient blood glucose level.

cursmoke

Whether or not the patient was a smoker at the time of study entry.

outcome

Did the patient die, experience hypertension, or leave the study without experiencing either event.

time_outcome

The time at which the patient experienced outcome.

cigpday

Number of cigarettes smoked per day at time of study entry.

References

  • Dawber TR, Meadors GF, Moore FE Jr. Epidemiological approaches to heart disease: the Framingham Study. Am J Public Health Nations Health. 1951;41(3):279-281.

  • Teaching Datasets - Public Use Datasets. https://biolincc.nhlbi.nih.gov/teaching/.


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