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INFARCTION: Study Case of Myocardial Infarction

Description

The study for which the following data were collected aimed at examining whether women who use or have used oral contraceptives are at a higher risk of myocardial infarction. The sample includes 149 women who had myocardial infarction (cases) and 300 women who did not (controls). The main exposure factor is usage of oral contraceptives; the data also include age, weight, height, tobacco consumption, hypertension and family history of cardiovascular diseases.

Usage

data(INFARCTION)

Format

A data frame with 449 observations measured on the following 10 variables:

NUMBER

Identification.

infarct

0 = controls; 1 = cases. Myocardial infarction.

co

0 = never; 1 = yes. Usage of oral contraceptives.

tobacco

0 = no; 1 = smoker; 2 = fromer smoker. Tobacco usage.

age

Age in years.

weight

Weight in kg.

height

Height in cm.

atcd

0 = no; 1 = yes. Family history of cardiovascular diseases.

hta

0 = no; 1 = yes. Hypertension.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(INFARCTION)
str(INFARCTION) 
# }