milk_mort {dosresmeta}

Eleven prospective studies on the relation between milk consumption and all-cause mortality

Description

The dataset reports the summarized dose-response results from eleven prospective studies on the relation between milk consumption and all-cause mortality.

Format

A data frame with 50 observations on the following 12 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.
rr	adjusted risk estimates.
lb	lower bound for the confidence limits of the adjusted risk estimates.
ub	upper bound for the confidence limits of the adjusted risk estimates.
logrr	natural logarithm of the adjusted risk estimates.
se	standard error for the logarithm of the adjusted risk estimates.

Author(s)

Alessio Crippa, <[e-mail]>

References

Larsson SC, Crippa A, Orsini N, Wolk A, Michaelsson K. Milk consumption and mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nutrients. 2015 Sep 11;7(9):7749-63.