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Intima Media Thickness of the Carotid Artery
Description
Simulated data for intima media thickness of the carotid artery and age in 2784 adults.
Usage
imt
Format
A data.frame
with 2784 observations on the following 3 variables:
- age
age of the individual (years).
- imt
intima media thickness of the carotid artery (mm).
- logimt
logarithm of
imt
.
Details
Data were simulated to emulate true data pattern observed in a real study (see References).
Source
See References.
References
Rivera M et al. Association between long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and subclinical atherosclerosis: the REGICOR Study. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2013;121(2):223-230.
Examples
data(imt)
par(las = 1, mfrow = c(1, 2))
with(imt, plot(age, imt))
with(imt, plot(age, logimt))
[Package tlm version 0.2.0 Index]