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BMACS CD4 dataset

Description

This dataset is from the Baltimore site of the Multi-center AIDS Cohort Study (BMACS), which included 400 homosexual men who were infected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) between 1984 and 1991.

Usage

data(BMACS)

Format

A data frame with 1817 rows and 6 variables.

Details

• ID. Subject ID

• Time. Subject's study visit time

• Smoke. Cigarette baseline smoking status

• age. Age at study enrollment

• preCD4. Pre-infection CD4 percentage

• CD4. CD4 percentage at the time of visit

References

Kaslow, R. A., Ostrow, D. G., Detels, R., Phair, J. P., Polk, B. F. and Rinaldo, C. R. The Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study: rationale, organization and selected characteristics of the participants. American Journal of Epidemiology, 126:310-318, 1987.