malawi_carbon {Biostatistics} | R Documentation |
Carbon exposure and lung immunity
Description
Data on two lung immunity measures (oxidative burst activity and phagocytic activity) from people exposed to chronic carbon particulates in their homes in Malawi
Usage
data("malawi_carbon")
Format
A data frame with 29 observations on the following 4 variables.
X
Row number
log_carbon
Log carbon particulate exposure
oxidative_burst
Lung oxidative burst activity
phagocytosis
Phagocytic activity in the lung
Source
Rylance, Jamie et al. (2016), Data from: Chronic household air pollution exposure is associated with impaired alveolar macrophage function in Malawian non-smokers, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.89nj3
References
Rylance, J., Chimpini, C., Semple, S., Russell, D.G., Jackson, M.J., Heyderman, R.S. & Gordon, S.B. (2015) Chronic Household Air Pollution Exposure Is Associated with Impaired Alveolar Macrophage Function in Malawian Non-Smokers. PloS one, 10, e0138762.
Examples
data(malawi_carbon)
str(malawi_carbon)