Today we worked on familiarizing ourselves with exactly what we were going to be doing. My current job is to determine how to calculate girth given a person’s BMI so that we can fill in missing data. I was given a research paper to assist in determining what is required to calculate a person’s girth. Currently, I have identified that a person’s sex, ethnicity, BMI, and age have an effect on the waist circumference; however, it appears as though my numbers are consistently higher than the actual values, potentially indicating that APOE-e4 has some kind of effect on a person’s girth, making it smaller than the normal person. More values need to be tested to make a more conclusive decision.
Due to privacy rights, I don’t have anything that I am legally able to share at the moment in terms of images because we have been working, for the most part, solely with data from real humans.