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

Description

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

format

A data frame with 31126 observations on the following 53 variables.

• seqnmatching 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 zheight z-score stratified by age and sex zweight z-score stratified by age and sex zwaist z-score stratified by age and sex zwci z-score stratified by age and sex zbmi z-score stratified by age and sex zptfat z-score stratified by age and sex ztfat z-score stratified by age and sex zlfat z-score stratified by age and sex zllean z-score stratified by age and sex zlbmi z-score stratified by age and sex zfbmi z-score stratified by age and sex zbbmi z-score stratified by age and sex zpf z-score stratified by age and sex zbmd z-score stratified by age and sex zfmhm_other z-score stratified by age and sex zhdl z-score stratified by age and sex zchol z-score stratified by age and sex zbps z-score stratified by age and sex zbpd z-score stratified by age and sex zincome z-score stratified by age and sex pop_weight population weight, for adding up over the US population psu primary sampling unit stratum sampling stratum zwh z-score of waist/height ratio

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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