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