diabetes: Network Meta-Ananlysis on Diabetes

diabetesR Documentation

Network Meta-Ananlysis on Diabetes

Description

An example of network meta-analysis for binary outcomes with follow-up times reported.

Usage

data("diabetes")

Format

A data frame containing 22 studies which compare a total of 6 treatments. The outcome is binary; the mean follow-up time in each study is collected.

s.id

a numeric vector of study IDs.

folup

a numeric vector of follow-up time (in years) for each study.

t.id

a numeric vector of treatment IDs.

r

a numeric vector of the total mortality in each treatment group in each study.

n

a numeric vector of the total number of participants in each treatment group in each study.

Details

This network meta-analysis is reported by Elliott and Meyer (2007) to assess the effects of anti-hypertensive agents on incident diabetes. Treatment IDs represent 1) diuretic; 2) placebo; 3) β-blocker; 4) calcium-channel blocker (CCB); 5) angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitor; and 6) angiotensin-receptor blocker (ARB).

Source

Elliott WJ, Meyer PM (2007). "Incident diabetes in clinical trials of antihypertensive drugs: a network meta-analysis." Lancet, 369(9557), 201–207. <doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60108-1>


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