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dosresmeta (version 2.0.1)

bmi_rc: Four case-control studies on the relation between Body Mass Index and renal cell cancer

Description

The dataset reports the summarized dose-response results from four cases-control studies on the relation Body Mass Index and renal cell cancer

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 33 observations on the following 13 variables:

idid of the studies included in the analysis.
authornames of the first author and year of publication.
typecode for study design.
intervalintervals for the categories of bmi.
bmiassigned bmi levels.
casenumber of cases for each exposure level.
controlnumber of controls for each exposure level.
ntotal number of subjects for each exposure level.
oradjusted odds ratios for each exposure level.
lb_orlower bound for the confidence limits of the adjusted odds ratios.
ub_orupper bound for the confidence limits of the adjusted odds ratios.
logornatural logarithm of the adjusted odds ratios.
se_logorstandard error for the logarithm of the adjusted odds ratios.

Author

Alessio Crippa, <alessio.crippa@ki.se>

References

Liu, Q., Cook, N. R., Bergstrom, A., Hsieh, C. C. (2009). A two-stage hierarchical regression model for meta-analysis of epidemiologic nonlinear dose-response data. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 53(12), 4157-4167.