The Fibrinogen Studies Collaboration is a meta-analysis of individual data on 154,012 adults from 31 prospective cohort studies with information on plasma fibrinogen and major disease outcomes. The dataset reports a subset of the results of a first-stage analysis consisting of the log-hazard ratio of coronary heart disease for categories of levels of fibrinogen versus a baseline category.
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Five Published Trials on Periodontal Disease
The dataset contains the results of 5 published trials comparing surgical and non-surgical treatments for medium-severity periodontal disease, one year after treatment. The 2 estimated outcomes are average improvements (surgical minus non-surgical, in mm) in probing depth (PD) and attachment level (AL).
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Meta-Analysis of Interventions to Promote Smoking Cessation
The dataset contains the results of 24 trials comparing four alternative interventions to promote smoking cessation. The trials have different designs, comparing two or three different interventions. The data consist of the number of successes out of the total participants, and the estimated log-odds ratio for arms B, C, and D relative to arm A, as well as the (co)variance matrix of these three estimates.
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High School Longitudinal Study
This is a nationally representative, longitudinal study of more than 21,000 9th graders in 944 schools who will be followed through their secondary and postsecondary years. The data are used for testing whether sex, socioeconomic status and sex by socio-economic status interaction are predictive of the mathematics standardized score in each of the eight race groups.
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Ten Studies Assessing an Hypertension Treatment
The dataset contains the results of ten studies that assess the effectiveness of hypertension treatment for lowering blood pressure. Each study provides complete data on two treatment effects, the difference in systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) between the treatment and the control groups, where these differences are adjusted for the participants' baseline blood pressures. The within-study correlations of the two outcomes are known. Some trials are conducted on patients with isolated systolic hypertension (ISH).
The dataset includes studies providing evidence about whether the presence of mutant p53 tumour suppressor gene is a prognostic factor for patients presenting with squamous cell carcinoma arising from the oropharynx cavity. Unadjusted estimates of log hazard ratios of mutant p53 to normal p53 for disease-free and overall survival, together with the associated variances, are collected from 6 observational studies.