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CardioRiskFactors: Cardiovascular risk factors

Description

Data from a study to investigate assocation between uric acid and various cardiovascular risk factors in developing countries (Heritier et. al. 2009). There are 474 men and 524 women aged 25-64.

Usage

data(CardioRiskFactors)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 998 observations on the following 14 variables.

age

Age of subject

bmi

Body Mass Index

waisthip

waist/hip ratio(?)

smok

indicator for regular smoker

choles

total cholesterol

trig

triglycerides level in body fat

hdl

high-density lipoprotien(?)

ldl

low-density lipoprotein

sys

systolic blood pressure

dia

diastolic blood pressure(?)

Uric

serum uric

sex

indicator for male

alco

alcohol intake (mL/day)

apoa

apoprotein A

Details

Data set and description taken from Heritier et. al. (2009) (c.f. Conen et. al. 2004).

Examples

Run this code
data(CardioRiskFactors)
fitF<-rfit(Uric~bmi+sys+choles+ldl+sex+smok+alco+apoa+trig+age,data=CardioRiskFactors)
fitR<-rfit(Uric~bmi+sys+choles+ldl+sex,data=CardioRiskFactors)
drop.test(fitF,fitR)
summary(fitR)

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