milk_ov {dosresmeta}

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, <[e-mail]>

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.