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NHANES

  1. Website:
    • see left margin for questionnaires, data, documentation, etc.
    • click and scroll down left margin to NHANES III
      • scroll down to Core data
        • adult.DAT, adult.SAS, adult.PDF
        • exam.DAT, exam.SAS, exam.PDF
        • lab.DAT, lab.SAS, lab.PDF
    • later review NHANES 1999-2000
      • demographics
        • demo doc (very convenient codebook)
        • DEMO.XPT
  2. Surveys:
    • NHANES III (1988-1994)
    • Adults 17+
    • Exam
    • Lab
    • Questionnaire
    • NHANES Continuous (1999-2018)
    • Demo
    • Exam
    • Lab
    • Questionnaire
    • Dietary
    • Restricted Data
  3. Linkages:
    • Mortality
    • ESRD
  4. Potential
    • Quantify 30-year risk of ESRD (1988-2018)
    • Quantify 30-year risk of mortality (1988-2018)
    • Deploy models as web app & risk calculators
    • Individualize risk prediction for these outcomes
  5. Challenges
    • Over 120 datafiles to download
    • Data cleaning
    • Harmonization
  6. Opportunities
    • Some data cleaning already done
    • Preliminary 30-year mortality
    • Can neglect variables on sampling weights
    • We are never interested in the population, but rather in the individual
    • I’m speaking from the perspective of a clinician, not a statistician
    • School of Medicine, not Bloomberg School