Brain tissue pH at time of death
A data frame with 54 observations on the following 5 variables.
pH
Brain tissue pH
Sex
F
or M
Ethnicity
AfricanAmerican
, Asian
, Caucasian
, or PacificIslander
Age
Age at death
DeathType
Cause of death (Cardiac
, Other
, or Suicide
)
These are data from a PNAS article (supplemental file) on pH in brain tissue samples for controls and for people who had Major Depressive Disorder. We extracted just the controls (roughly 3/4 of whom died of cardiac arrest).