plasma {gamlss.data}

The plasma data set

Description

A cross-sectional study to investigate the relationship between personal characteristics and dietary factors, and plasma concentrations.

Usage

data("plasma")

Format

A data frame with 315 observations on the following 14 variables.

age

age (years)

sex

sex, 1=male, 2=female

smokstat

smoking status 1=never, 2=former, 3=current Smoker

bmi

body mass index weight/(height^2)

vituse

vitamin use 1=yes, fairly often, 2=yes, not often, 3=no

calories

number of calories consumed per day

fat

grams of fat consumed per day

fiber

grams of fiber consumed per day

alcohol

number of alcoholic drinks consumed per week

cholesterol

cholesterol consumed (mg per day)

betadiet

dietary beta-carotene consumed (mcg per day)

retdiet

dietary retinol consumed (mcg per day)

betaplasma

plasma beta-carotene (ng/ml)

retplasma

plasma retinol (ng/ml)

Details

“Observational studies have suggested that low dietary intake or low plasma concentrations of retinol, beta-carotene, or other carotenoids might be associated with increased risk of developing certain types of cancer \ ... We designed a cross-sectional study to investigate the relationship between personal characteristics and dietary factors, and plasma concentrations of retinol, beta-carotene and other carotenoids." Harrell (2002)

Source

Harrell (2002)

References

Harrell, F. E. (2002), Plasma Retinol and Beta-Carotene Dataset, https://hbiostat.org/data/repo/plasma.html

Examples

data(plasma)