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Diagnostic attributes of patients classified as having heart disease or not.

Usage

heart

Format

270 observations from 17 variables represented as a list consisting of a binary factor response vector y, with levels 'absence' and 'presence' indicating the absence or presence of heart disease and x: a sparse feature matrix of class 'dgCMatrix' with the following variables:

age

age

bp

diastolic blood pressure

chol

serum cholesterol in mg/dl

hr

maximum heart rate achieved

old_peak

ST depression induced by exercise relative to rest

vessels

the number of major blood vessels (0 to 3) that were colored by fluoroscopy

sex

sex of the participant: 0 for male, 1 for female

angina

a dummy variable indicating whether the person suffered angina-pectoris during exercise

glucose_high

indicates a fasting blood sugar over 120 mg/dl

cp_typical

typical angina

cp_atypical

atypical angina

cp_nonanginal

non-anginal pain

ecg_abnormal

indicates a ST-T wave abnormality (T wave inversions and/or ST elevation or depression of > 0.05 mV)

ecg_estes

probable or definite left ventricular hypertrophy by Estes' criteria

slope_flat

a flat ST curve during peak exercise

slope_downsloping

a downwards-sloping ST curve during peak exercise

thal_reversible

reversible defect

thal_fixed

fixed defect

Source

Dua, D. and Karra Taniskidou, E. (2017). UCI Machine Learning Repository http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/. Irvine, CA: University of California, School of Information and Computer Science.

Preprocessing

The original dataset contained 13 variables. The nominal of these were dummycoded, removing the first category. No precise information regarding variables chest_pain, thal and ecg could be found, which explains their obscure definitions here.

See also

Other datasets: abalone, bodyfat, student, wine