NGHS: NGHS dataset

In npmldabook/npmlda: Non-Parametric Models for Longitudinal Data Analysis

Description

This dataset includes 2378 girls (total 19701 observations) enrolled in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Growth and Health Study (NGHS). NGHS is a multicenter population-based cohort study aimed at evaluating the racial differences and longitudinal changes in childhood cardiovascular risk factors between Caucasian and African American girls during childhood and adolescence.

Usage

data(NGHS)

Format

A data frame with 19701 rows and 12 variables.

Details

• ID. Subject ID

• RACE. Subject's race (1=Caucasian, 2= African American)

• AGE,HEIGHT,WEIGHT,BMI. Age, height, weight and BMI at study visit

• BMIPCT, HTPCT. CDC Age-adjusted BMI percentile and height percentile at study visit

• SBP,DBP. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure at study visit

• TG,LDL. Triglyceride and Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol at study visit

References

1. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Research Group (NGHSRG). Obesity and cardiovascular disease risk factors in black and white girls: the NHLBI Growth and Health Study. American Journal of Public Health, 82:1613-1620, 1992.

2. Wu, C. O. and Tian, X. Nonparametric estimation of conditional distributions and rank-tracking probabilities with time-varying transformation models in longitudinal studies. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 108:971-982, 2013.

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