Abstract:Objectives: To generate a synthetic sample of 1 million individuals that reflect the characteristics of the population recorded in the Health Survey for England (HSE). MethOds: We used data from the HSE to determine the age and genderdependent distributions of continuous variable risk factors (height, weight, BMI, systolic blood pressure, total and HDL cholesterol and their ratio, number of cigarettes/ day and units of alcohol/week) and prevalence of binary risk factors (smoking status, diabetes). Spearman ran… Show more
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