bloodpressure {bayesGAM}

Blood pressure data from a clinical study

Description

Data from 200 subjects

Usage

bloodpressure

Format

A data frame with 2438 rows and 13 variables:

ID

Subject identification number

BIRTH_WT

birth weight (lbs)

WEIGHT

current weight (lbs)

HEIGHT

current height (cm)

BMI

current body mass index

age

current age (yrs)

dias

diastolic blood pressure

sys

systolic blood pressure

SexM

indicator of sex male

RaceB

indicator of race black

RaceW

indicator of race white

PHIGHBP

indicator that either parent had high blood pressure

PDIABET

indicator that either parent had diabetes

Source

Data provided by Wanzhu Tu, Indiana University School of Medicine

References

Tu, W., Eckert, G. J., DiMeglio, L. A., Yu, Z., Jung, J., and Pratt, J. H. (2011). Intensified effect of adiposity on blood pressure in overweight and obese children. Hypertension, 58(5), 818-824.