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dat.ck: Example data set: Comparing creatine kinase levels between COVID-19 survivors and nonsurvivors (cleaned version)

Description

A data set from the meta-analysis of Katzenschlager et al. (2021). Specifically, this data set corresponds to the meta-analysis comparing creatine kinase (CK) levels of COVID-19 infected patients who died and those who survived. The unit of measurement for the CK levels is U/L. The rows in the data set correspond to the primary studies. Compared to the "raw" version (i.e., dat.asat_raw), this data set excludes the primary study of Qi et al. (2021) due to its small sample size in the nonsurvivor group.

Usage

dat.ck

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 17 rows and 13 columns:

authorfirst author of the primary study and the journal name.
n.g1number of subjects (nonsurvivor group).
q1.g1first quartile of the CK levels (nonsurvivor group).
med.g1median CK level (nonsurvivor group).
q3.g1third quartile of the CK levels (nonsurvivor group).
mean.g1mean CK level (nonsurvivor group).
sd.g1standard deviation of the CK levels (nonsurvivor group).
n.g2number of subjects (survivor group).
q1.g2first quartile of the CK levels (survivor group).
med.g2median CK level (survivor group).
q3.g2third quartile of the CK levels (survivor group).
mean.g2mean CK level (survivor group).
sd.g2standard deviation of the CK levels (survivor group).

References

Katzenschlager S., Zimmer A.J., Gottschalk C., Grafeneder J., Seitel A., Maier-Hein L., Benedetti A., Larmann J., Weigand M.A., McGrath S., and Denkinger C.M. (2021). Can we predict the severe course of COVID-19 - A systematic review and meta-analysis of indicators of clinical outcome? PLOS One, 16, e0255154.

Qi X., Liu Y., Wang J., Fallowfield J.A., Wang J., Li X., Shi J., Pan H., Zou S., Zhang H., and others. (2021). Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of COVID-19 patients with pre-existing cirrhosis: A multicentre cohort study, Gut, 70, 433–436.