coffee_cancer {dosresmeta}

Eight prospective studies on the relation between coffee consumption and cancer mortality

Description

The dataset reports the summarized dose-response results from eight prospective studies on the relation between coffee consumption and cancer mortality.

Format

A data frame with 59 observations on the following 11 variables:

id	id of the studies included in the analysis.
author	names of the first author.
year	year of publication.
type	code for study design.
dose	assigned dose levels.
cases	number of cases for each exposure level.
n	total number of subjects (type = "ci") or person-years (type = "ir") for each exposure level.
logrr	natural logarithm of the adjusted risk estimates.
se	standard error for the logarithm of the adjusted risk estimates.
gender	factor variable for the gender of the partecipants.
area	factor variable for the study location.

Author(s)

Alessio Crippa, <[e-mail]>

References

Crippa A, Discacciati A, Larsson SC, Wolk A, Orsini N. Coffee Consumption and Mortality from All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer: A Dose-Response Meta-Analysis. Am J Epidemiol. 2014 Aug 24. pii: kwu194.