Random-effects meta-regression models for studying nonlinear dose-response relationship, with an application to alcohol and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 2679-2687

  Rota, Matteo ^a   Bellocco, Rino ^a,b   Scotti, Lorenza ^a   Tramacere, Irene ^c   Jenab, Mazda ^d   Corrao, Giovanni ^a   La Vecchia, Carlo ^c,e   Boffetta, Paolo ^f,g   Bagnardi, Vincenzo ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^d INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^f MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g INTERNATIONAL PREVENTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (France)

^h EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Dose response; Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; Fractional polynomial regression; Meta analysis; Random effects models

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PROCESSING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK;

EID: 77958518121     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4041     Document Type: Article

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