Framingham Heart Study

Data and description from Dan Gillen, Winter 2012 Stats 111/202. For more history on the Framingham Heart Study, click here.

For the data set, click here.

Background

• 5209 subjects (men and women between the ages of 30 and 62) identified in a small Massachusetts town (Framingham)
• Biennial exams for blood pressure, serum cholesterol, and relative weight
• 30-year follow-up data
• Major endpoints include the occurrence of coronary heart disease (CHD) and deaths from
• CHD or MI
• Cerebrovascular accident (CVA or stroke)
• Cancer
• Other causes
• Scientific Objective: Identify the common factors or characteristics that contribute to cardiovascular disease (CVD) by following its development over a long period of time in a large group of participants who had not yet developed overt symptoms of CVD or suffered a heart attack or stroke.

Variable Descriptions

sex      : Sex (1 = male; 2 = female)
sbp      : Systolic Blood Pressure
dbp      : Diastolic Blood Pressure
scl      : Serum Cholesterol
chdfate  : Coronary Heart Disease
followup : Follow-up in Days
age      : Age in Years
bmi      : Body Mass Index (wt (kg) / h^2 (m)
month    : Study Month of Baseline Exam
id       : Subject ID