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... of dose levels for each single study included in the ...of dose lev- els, exclusion of these studies may result in substantial loss of ...the dose-response ...the dose-response ... See full document

... per trial is 100, since in the 100-patient per trial scenarios the simultaneously present bias towards unity (or no effect) discussed above is less than 0.5%. (In the scenarios with heterogeneity and 10 patients per ... See full document

... a meta-analysis is deeply influ- enced by the quality of the single studies ...this meta- analysis, three [9,12,13] adjusted only for age and gender, and therefore their results could be ... See full document

... subgroup meta-analysis by gender, region, ACPA, and study design, other factors may be the cause of this great heterogeneity, such as rheumatoid ...the differences in adjustment for ...multivariable ... See full document

... conducted as well to detect the etiological effect of tea consumption on the incidence of fractures. In this current meta-analysis, we studied the association between tea drinking and risk of fractures. ... See full document

... the dose-response association between lifelong exposure to cigarette smoking and ...a meta-analysis is influenced by the quality of the summarized ...the differences between ... See full document

... corresponding 95% CIs and covariates included in statistical models. When analyses of the same population were reported more than once, we included the largest study for the appropriate analysis. In case-control ... See full document

... to differences in the directionality of ...the analysis was restricted to CC, and when the analysis was stratified by ...this analysis, we were not able to investigate potential etiologic ... See full document

... their analysis confined to large adenomas (> ...some differences, for example, in bowel location ...subgroup analysis to examine occurrent adenomas separately and observed a potential benefit that ... See full document

... a dose–response meta-analysis that in- cluded results from our two prospective cohorts (COSM and SMC) as well as findings from previously published prospective studies of coffee consumption ... See full document

... two-stage dose-response meta-analysis was conducted to assess whether the more consumption of cigarettes were associated with higher risks of mortality from all causes and BC based on specific ... See full document

... to dose-response meta-analysis, meta-analysis of cohort studies, meta-analysis of prospective studies, meta-analysis of observational studies and ... See full document

... Details of candidate study reports were scrutinized to avoid inclusion of redundant data appearing in mul- tiple articles. Data were extracted for year of report- ing; study design; criteria for diagnosis of HRS and for ... See full document

... Detailed characteristics of the included studies are presented in Table 1. Thirteen studies (14 reports) with 6519 AF cases and 74,885 participants were in- cluded in this meta-analysis [7–14, 16–19, 29]. ... See full document

... An analysis of 669 participants in the CARDIA (Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults) Sleep Study suggests a moderate correlation between self-reported and objectively measured sleep duration with ... See full document

... which they depend are underspecified. In some cases, the conceptual link to impulsivity seems tenuous. Post-hoc attempts to classify them empirically have not produced consistent findings, probably as a result of the ... See full document

... current meta-analysis could be of some significance for clarifying the relationship between caffeine consump- tion and ...the meta-analysis by Jiang et ...the dose- response data ... See full document

... current analysis is considerably stronger than what would be expected if fruit and vegetable intake only reduced cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality, but not other causes of ... See full document

... this dose-response meta-analysis, the fractional polynomial analysis indicated a U-shaped response, and both the cubic spline and fractional polynomial analyses indicated greater ... See full document

... previous meta-analysis suggested that both short and long sleep duration were connected with risk of type II ...a dose-response analysis, it residues unidentified how many hours of ... See full document