NHANES: Body Shape and related measurements from NHANES 1999-2004

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Description

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

Format

A data frame with 31126 observations on the following 32 variables.

• seqn matching code for NHANES mortality data

• sex "male" or "female"

• age in years

• pregnant "yes" or "no"

• ethnicity Mexican American, Other Hispanic, Non-Hispanic White, Non-Hispanic Black, or Other/Multi

• death "alive", "cardiovascular death" or "other death"

• followup months of follow up (for mortality data)

• 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

• lean_bmi lean-tissue only BMI

• fat_bmi fat-only BMI

• bone_bmi bone BMI

• pct_fat 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

• pop_weight population weight, for adding up over the US population

• psu primary sampling unit

• stratum sampling stratum

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

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