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R Shiny application for exploring 20 years of blood pressure data from NHANES

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Our goal is to provide a platform for exploration of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data.

Web application

Examples

Below are a few graphs produced by the platform. Additional graphs can be found by selecting the “Results” tab above. Instructions on how to generate statistics using the application are available by clicking on the “Get Started” tab.

Figure 1: Systolic blood pressure by age group in the last three NHANES cycles.

Figure 2: Prevalence of blood pressure control by sex among adults with hypertension.

Make your own results

You can use the cardioStatsUSA web application to run customized analyses of NHANES data. The videos below show how I used it to make Figures 1 and 2.

  • This video shows how Figure 1 was made
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  • This video shows how Figure 2 was made
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