imt {tlm}R Documentation

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))

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