obesityBW_CFB {MBNMAtime} | R Documentation |
Studies of treatments for reducing body weight in patients with obesity
Description
A dataset from a systematic review of pharmacological treatments for reducing body weight in patients with obesity. The outcome is continuous, and aggregate data responses are given as mean change from baseline in body weight (KG). Overall there are 35 RCTs investigating 26 treatments of 16 agents (/combinations of agents) in the network. Standard deviations have been imputed for 421 observations.
Usage
obesityBW_CFB
Format
A data frame with 710 rows and 7 variables:
-
studyID
Study identifiers -
time
Numeric data indicating follow-up times -
y
Numeric data indicating the mean response for a given observation -
se
Numeric data indicating the standard error for a given observation -
n
Numeric data indicating the number of participants used to calculate means for each observation -
treatment
Treatment identifiers as factors. Labels are shortened treatment names. -
treatname
Character data giving the full names of each treatment in the format agent_dose -
agent
Agent (drug) names stored as characters -
class
The drug class of the agent (a broader category thanagent
) stored as characters
Details
obesityBW_CFB
is a data frame in long format (one row per observation, arm and study),
with the variables studyID
, time
, y
, se
, n
, treatment
, treatname
, agent
and class
.
Source
Pfizer Ltd.