Framingham data
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Description
The data come from the famous "Framingham Heart Study", a study initially planned as a 20 years cohort study of residents aged 30-59 in Framingham town, Massachusetts, in 1948. The present data contain observations on n=1,363 persons.
More information about the study can be found from e.g. wikipedia.
Variable Names
| Variable | Explanation (Unit) |
|---|---|
| sex | sex (Female/Male) |
| AGE | Age in years |
| FRW | ``Framingham relative weight'' (pct.) at baseline (52-222) |
| SBP | systolic blood pressure at baseline mmHg (90-300) |
| DBP | diastolic blood pressure at baseline mmHg (50-160) |
| CHOL | cholesterol at baseline mg/100ml (96-430) |
| CIG | cigarettes per day at baseline (0-60) |
| disease | 1 if coronary heart disease occured during the follow-up, 0 otherwise |
Download
| Format | Download |
|---|---|
| text (csv) | framingham.csv |
| rda (for R) | framingham.rda |
Load data into R
load(url("http://paulblanche.com/files/framingham.rda")) head(framingham)