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Name:

Blood pressure versus Salt; inter-population data

Description:

Median blood pressure, as a fuction of salt intake, for each of 52 human populations.

Variables:

A data frame with 52 observations on the following 6 variables.

b: a numeric vector
bp: mean diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg)
na: mean sodium excretion (mmol/24h)
country: a character vector

Details

For each population took a sample of 25 males and 25 females from each decade in the age range 20 - 50, i.e. 200 individuals in all.

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Files:

Blood pressure versus Salt; inter-population data_262_71.csv

License Type:

Public Domain (CC0)

References/Notes/Attributions:

Source

Intersalt Cooperative Research Group. 1988. Intersalt: an international study of electrolyte excretion and blood pressure: results for 24 hour urinary sodium and potassium excretion. British Medical Journal 297: 319-328.

References

Maindonald, J.H. The Design of Research Studies ? A Statistical Perspective, viii + 109pp. Graduate School Occasional Paper 00/2, Australian National University 2000.

R Dataset Upload:

Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/Blood_pressure_versus_Salt__inter-population_data_262_71.csv")