R: South African Hearth Disease Data

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## South African Hearth Disease Data

### Description

A retrospective sample of males in a heart-disease high-risk region of the Western Cape, South Africa.

### Usage

    data(SAheart)

### Format

A data frame with 462 observations on the following 10 variables.

sbp

  systolic blood pressure

tobacco

  cumulative tobacco (kg)

ldl

  low density lipoprotein cholesterol

adiposity

  a numeric vector

famhist

  family history of heart disease, a factor with levels `Absent` `Present`

typea

  type-A behavior

obesity

  a numeric vector

alcohol

  current alcohol consumption

age

  age at onset

chd

  response, coronary heart disease

### Details

A retrospective sample of males in a heart-disease high-risk region of the Western Cape, South Africa. There are roughly two controls per case of CHD. Many of the CHD positive men have undergone blood pressure reduction treatment and other programs to reduce their risk factors after their CHD event. In some cases the measurements were made after these treatments. These data are taken from a larger dataset, described in Rousseauw et al, 1983, South African Medical Journal.

### Source

Rousseauw, J., du Plessis, J., Benade, A., Jordaan, P., Kotze, J. and Ferreira, J. (1983). Coronary risk factor screening in three rural communities, South African Medical Journal 64: 430–436.

### Examples

    data(SAheart)
    str(SAheart)
    summary(SAheart)

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