alcohol_esoph {dosresmeta}

Fourteen case-control studies on the relation between alcohol consumption and esophageal cancer

Description

The dataset reports the summarized dose-response results from fourteen case-control studies on the relation between alcohol consumption and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

Format

A data frame with 63 observations on the following 8 variables:

id	id of the studies included in the analysis.
author	names of the first author.
type	code for study design.
cases	number of cases for each exposure level.
n	total number of subjects for each exposure level.
dose	assigned dose levels.
logrr	natural logarithm of the adjusted odds ratio.
se	standard error for the logarithm of the adjusted odds ratio

Author(s)

Alessio Crippa, <[e-mail]>

References

Rota M, Bellocco R, Scotti L, Tramacere I, Jenab M, Corrao G, La Vecchia C, Boffetta P, Bagnardi V. Random-effects meta-regression models for studying nonlinear dose-response relationship, with an application to alcohol and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Statistics in medicine. 2010 Nov 20;29(26):2679-87.