diabetes: Diabetes Risk
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Diabetes Risk

Description

Subset of survey data collected by the US National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The original data was based on home interviews of about 5,000 people per years, from 1999-2004.

Format

A data frame with 9096 observations on the following 23 variables.

sex: "male" or "female"
age: age of subject in years
pregnant: "yes" or "no"
ethnicity: Mexican American, Other Hispanic, Non-Hispanic White, Non-Hispanic Black, or Other/Multi
smoker: "yes" or "no"
diabetic: "yes" or "no"
height: height (meters)
weight: weight (kilograms)
waist: waist circumference (meters)
wci: the proposed body shape index
bmi: body mass index
ptfat: percent trunk fat
tfat: mass of trunk fat
lfat: limb fat
llean: limb lean tissue
lbmi: lean-tissue only BMI
fbmi: fat-only BMI
bbmi: bone BMI
pfat: 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 stands for a ratio greater than or equal to 5)

Source

Modified from NCHS in package DataComputing. The original data is from NHANES, the National Health and Nutrition Survey. See http://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/search/nhanes03_04.aspx# for more infromation.

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