When it launched in 1948 the original goal of The Framingham Heart Study (FHS) launched in 1948
with the goal of identifying risk factors for cardiovascular disease. FHS had over 14,000 people from three generations,
including the original participants, their children, and their grandchildren. These data represent
4238 Framingham subjects and were published by Kaggle for a machine-learning competition. The goal of
the competition was to predict TenYearCHD from the other factors.
data(Framingham)4238 rows, each of which is a FHS subject. There are 16 variables:
sex
age of the patient
education highest level achieved: some HS, HS grad/GED, some college/vocational school, college graduate
currentSmoker: whether or not the patient is a current smoker
cigsPerDay: the number of cigarettes that the person smoked on average in one day.
BPMeds: whether or not the patient was on blood pressure medication
prevalentStroke: whether or not the patient had previously had a stroke
prevalentHyp: whether or not the patient was hypertensive
diabetes: whether or not the patient had diabetes
totChol: total cholesterol level
sysBP: systolic blood pressure
diaBP: diastolic blood pressure
BMI: Body Mass Index
heartRate: heart rate
glucose: glucose level
TenYearCHD: Did the patient develop congestive heart disease during a 10 year follow-up? (1=Yes)
Description of FHS by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute