intersalt: Blood pressure versus Salt; inter-population data
Description
Median blood pressure, as a fuction of salt intake, for each of 52
human populations.
Usage
intersalt
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 52 observations on the following 4 variables.
b
a numeric vector
bp
mean diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg)
na
mean sodium excretion (mmol/24h)
country
a character vector
Details
For each population took a sample of 25 males and 25 females from each
decade in the age range 20 - 50, i.e. 200 individuals in all.
References
Maindonald, J.H. The Design of Research Studies ? A Statistical
Perspective, viii + 109pp. Graduate School Occasional Paper 00/2,
Australian National University 2000.