height_immunity dataset

Data on the relationship between immune system functioning and body height in healthy people.

Data from a study relating innate (complement & lysozyme activity, neutrophil function) and adaptive (lymphocyte count, IgA, IgG and vaccine responce) to height. The subjects were a group of Polish volunteers. data

data("height_immunity")

Format

A data frame with 193 observations on the following 16 variables.

• sex: Subject sex
• age: Age in years
• body.height: Height in mm
• BMI: Body Mass Index
• body_fat: Percent body fat
• testosterone: Free testosterone titre
• complement: Complement activity
• lysozyme: Lysozyme activity
• phagocytic: Phagocytic uptake
• ROS: Reactive Oxygen Species production
• IgA: Immunoglobulin A levels
• IgG: Immunoglobulin G levels
• CD3: CD3 lymphocytes
• CD19: CD19 lymphocytes
• flu_post_vaccination_response: Antibody response to 'flu vaccination
• tetanus_post_vaccination_response: Antibody response to tetanus vaccination

Source

Pawlowski, Boguslaw et al. (2017), Data from: Body height and immune efficacy: testing body stature as a signal of biological quality, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2vn0d

References

Drulis-Kawa, Z. (2017) Body height and immune efficacy: testing body stature as a signal of biological quality. Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 284: 0171372

Examples

data(height_immunity)
str(height_immunity)