title: Data taken from the review article "Radiation and circulatory disease" and used in the associated meta-analysis.
abstract: This WinZip archive 'Combined R, EpiWin & datafiles (rev 2016-9-29).zip' contains the basic data used in the meta-analysis of doi 10.1016/j.mrrev.2016.07.008 (M.P. Little, 2016) [1], complete with R (R Project version 3.2.2, 2015) [2] code used for meta-regression etc. The basic data is derived from the papers of Mulrooney et al. (D.A. Mulrooney, M.W. Yeazel, T. Kawashima, A.C. Mertens, P. Mitby, M. Stovall, S.S. Donaldson, D.M. Green, C.A. Sklar, L.L. Robison, W.M. Leisenring, 2009) [3], Cutter et al. (D.J. Cutter, M. Schaapveld, S.C. Darby, M. Hauptmann, F.A. van Nimwegen, A.D.G. Krol, C.P.M. Janus, F.E. van Leeuwen, B.M.P. Aleman, 2015) [4] and van Nimwegen et al. (F.A. van Nimwegen, M. Schaapveld, D.J. Cutter, C.P.M. Janus, A.D.G. krol, M. Hauptmann, K. Kooijman, J. Roesink, R. van der Maazen, S.C. Darby, B.M.P. Aleman, F.E. van Leeuwen, 2016) [5], and other data taken from various Tables in the papers summarized in Tables 2-4 of doi 10.1016/j.mrrev.2016.07.008 [1]. The archive also contains R [2] script files that perform the meta-analysis.
authors.affiliation: Radiation Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-9778, USA.
authors.forename: Mark P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Little
keywords: Circulatory disease; Ionizing radiation; Ischemic heart disease; Review; Stroke