heart: Risk factors associated with heart disease
Description
Data from a subset of the Coronary Risk-Factor Study
baseline survey, carried out in rural South Africa. The variables are
as follows:
- sbp: Systolic blood pressure
- tobacco: Cumulative tobacco consumption, in kg
- ldl: Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol
- adiposity: Adipose tissue concentration
- famhist: Family history of heart disease (1=Present, 0=Absent)
- typea: Score on test designed to measure type-A behavior
- obesity: Obesity
- alcohol: Current consumption of alcohol
- age: Age of subject
- chd: Coronary heart disease at baseline; 1=Yes 0=No
format
A data frame with 462 observations on 10 variablessource
http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/References
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in three rural communities.South African Medical Journal,64, 430-436.