milk_ov {dosresmeta} R Documentation

## Nine studies on the relation between milk consumption and ovarian cancer

### Description

The dataset reports the summarized dose-response results from nine studies on the relation between milk consumption and ovarian cancer.

### Format

A data frame with 37 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. case number of cases for each exposure level. n total number of subjects (type = "ir" or "cc") 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, <alessio.crippa@ki.se>

### References

Larsson, S. C., N. Orsini, and A. Wolk. 2005. Milk, milk products and lactose intake and ovarian cancer risk: A meta-analysis of epidemiological studies. International Journal of Cancer 118: 431-441.

Greenland, S., Longnecker, M. P. (1992). Methods for trend estimation from summarized dose-response data, with applications to meta-analysis. American journal of epidemiology, 135(11), 1301-1309.

[Package dosresmeta version 2.0.1 Index]