nhanesOriginal: Body Shape and related measurements from NHANES 1999-2004 in...

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Description

These data were collected as part of the NHANES 1999-2004 study.

Usage

data(nhanesOriginal)

Format

A data frame with 31126 observations on the following 53 variables.

seqn

matching code for NHANES mortality data

sex

2 is women

age

in years

preg

1 means pregnant

eth

ethnicity. 1=Mexican American, 2=Other Hispanic, 3=Non-Hispanic White, 4=Non-Hispanic Black, 5 = Other Race - Including Multi-Racial, .=Missing

d

died. Alive=0. 2=Cardiovascular cause of death. 1=other death

m

months of follow up (for mortality data)

smoke

1 means smoker

diab

1 means diabetic

hgt

height (meters)

wgt

weight (kilograms)

wst

waist circumference (meters)

wci

the proposed body shape index

bmi

body mass index

ptf

percent trunk fat

tf

mass of trunk fat

lf

limb fat

ll

limb lean tissue

lbmi

lean-tissue only BMI

fbmi

fat-only BMI

bbmi

bone BMI

pf

percent fat

bmd

bone mineral density

fmhm_other

Framingham risk score

hdl

HDL cholesterol

chol

cholesterol (LDL?)

bps

systolic blood pressure, mmHg

bpd

diastolic blood pressure, mmHg

income

ratio of family income to poverty threshold. 5 is ratio greater than or equal to 5

zhgt

z-score stratified by age and sex

zwgt

z-score stratified by age and sex

zwst

z-score stratified by age and sex

zwci

z-score stratified by age and sex

zbmi

z-score stratified by age and sex

zptf

z-score stratified by age and sex

ztf

z-score stratified by age and sex

zlf

z-score stratified by age and sex

zll

z-score stratified by age and sex

zlbmi

z-score stratified by age and sex

zfbmi

z-score stratified by age and sex

zbbmi

z-score stratified by age and sex

zpf

z-score stratified by age and sex

zbmd

z-score stratified by age and sex

zfmhm_other

z-score stratified by age and sex

zhdl

z-score stratified by age and sex

zchol

z-score stratified by age and sex

zbps

z-score stratified by age and sex

zbpd

z-score stratified by age and sex

zincome

z-score stratified by age and sex

pw

population weight, for adding up over the US population

psu

primary sampling unit

stratum

sampling stratum

zwh

z-score of waist/height ratio

Source

These data were assempled from NHANES 1999-2004 sources by Dr. Nir Krakauer at City College of New York.

References

Nir Y. Krakauer, Jesse C. Krakauer, "A New Body Shape Index Predicts Mortality Hazard Independently of Body Mass Index" PloS one, 7 (7) PMID: 22815707, 2012. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0039504

Examples

data(nhanesOriginal)
## maybe str(nhanesOriginal)

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