Fibrinogen {metamisc}

Meta-analysis of the association between plasma fibrinogen concentration and the risk of coronary heath disease

Description

The Fibrinogen data set is a meta-analysis of 31 studies in which the association between plasma fibrinogen concentration and the risk of coronary heath disease (CHD) was estimated.

Usage

data("Fibrinogen")

Format

A data frame with 5 variables:

N.total

a numeric vector describing the total number of patients for each study

N.events

a numeric vector describing the number of observed events within each study

HR

a numeric vector describing the estimated hazard ratio of each study

HR.025

a numeric vector describing the lower boundary of the 95% confidence interval of HR

HR.975

a numeric vector describing the upper boundary of the 95% confidence interval of HR

Source

Fibrinogen Studies Collaboration. Collaborative meta-analysis of prospective studies of plasma fibrinogen and cardiovascular disease. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil. 2004 Feb;11(1):9-17.

Thompson S, Kaptoge S, White I, Wood A, Perry P, Danesh J, et al. Statistical methods for the time-to-event analysis of individual participant data from multiple epidemiological studies. Int J Epidemiol. 2010 Oct;39(5):1345-59.

Examples

data(Fibrinogen)
## maybe str(Fibrinogen) ; plot(Fibrinogen) ...