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Diabetes data of Dr John Schorling
Description
These data are courtesy of Dr John Schorling, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine. The data consist of 19 variables on 403 subjects from 1046 subjects who were interviewed in a study to understand the prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and other cardiovascular risk factors in central Virginia for African Americans. According to Dr John Hong, Diabetes Mellitus Type II (adult onset diabetes) is associated most strongly with obesity. The waist/hip ratio may be a predictor in diabetes and heart disease. DM II is also agssociated with hypertension - they may both be part of "Syndrome X". The 403 subjects were the ones who were actually screened for diabetes. Glycosolated hemoglobin > 7.0 is usually taken as a positive diagnosis of diabetes.
Format
A data frame with 205 observations on the following 12 variables.
- id
subject id
- chol
Total Cholesterol
- stab.glu
Stabilized Glucose
- hdl
High Density Lipoprotein
- ratio
Cholesterol/HDL Ratio
- glyhb
Glycosolated Hemoglobin
- location
a factor with levels (Buckingham,Louisa)
- age
age (years)
- gender
male or female
- height
height (inches)
- height.europe
height (cm)
- weight
weight (pounds)
- weight.europe
weight (kg)
- frame
a factor with levels (small,medium,large)
- bp.1s
First Systolic Blood Pressure
- bp.1d
First Diastolic Blood Pressure
- bp.2s
Second Diastolic Blood Pressure
- bp.2d
Second Diastolic Blood Pressure
- waist
waist in inches
- hip
hip in inches
- time.ppn
Postprandial Time when Labs were Drawn in minutes
- AgeGroups
Categorized age
- BMI
Categorized BMI
References
Willems JP, Saunders JT, DE Hunt, JB Schorling: Prevalence of coronary heart disease risk factors among rural blacks: A community-based study. Southern Medical Journal 90:814-820; 1997 Schorling JB, Roach J, Siegel M, Baturka N, Hunt DE, Guterbock TM, Stewart HL: A trial of church-based smoking cessation interventions for rural African Americans. Preventive Medicine 26:92-101; 1997.
Examples
data(Diabetes)