BHS {simexaft}

Busselton Health Study

Description

This dataset is a subset of the Busselton Health study. The Busselton Health study was a repeated cross-sectional survey that was conducted to the community of Busselton in Western Australian.

Usage

data(BHS)

Format

A data frame with 100 observations on the following 18 variables.

PAIR

spouse pair id number

AGE

age at survey

SEX

sex

SBP

systolic blood pressure

DBP

diastolic blood pressure

BMI

body mass index

CHOL

cholesterol level

DIABETES

history of diabetes

RXHYPER

on blood pressure treatment

CHID

history of coronary heart disease

SMOKE

smoking status

DRINKING

alcohol consumption level

SURVTIME

survival time from survey data to date last known alive

DTHCENS

censoring indicator

CHDCENS

indicator of the death from coronary heart disease

CVDCENS

indicator of the death from cardiovascular disease

SMOKE1

indicator of ex-smoker

SMOKE2

indicator of current smoker

Details

This dataset is a subset of the Busselton Health study. The Busselton Health study was a repeated cross-sectional survey that was conducted to the community of Busselton in Western Australian.

Source

He, W., Yi, G. Y. and Xiong, J. (2007). Accelerated Failure Time Models with Covariates Subject to Measurement Error. Statistics in Medicine, 26, 4817-4832.

Knuiman, M. W., Cullent, K. J., Bulsara, M. K., Welborn, T. A. and Hobbs, M. S. T. (1994). Mortality trends, 1965 to 1989, in Busselton, The Site of Repeated Health Surveys and Interventions. Australian Journal of Public Health, 18, 129-135.

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