[PDF] Top 20 Fracture risk in long term care: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective observational studies

... prior fracture had the strongest impact on incident frac- ...among studies. Not all studies clarified their definition of prior fractures, although one of the two studies [22] using any prior ... See full document

... many observational studies and the current meta- analysis, two large randomized con- trolled trials (RCT’s), the ATBC and CARET, showed an increased risk of lung cancer with high- dose ... See full document

... Additional studies will be identified from the reference list of articles and relevant reviews or ...additional studies by contacting authors of included studies or ... See full document

... cluded studies using ROBINS-I, a tool for assessing risk of bias in nonrandomized studies of interventions for observational studies ...this systematic review, and to ... See full document

... a systematic review of observational (retrospective or prospective) studies in the MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases that covered at least 100 children or adults with ... See full document

... eligible observational study, two reviewers will independently extract information on first author, year of publication, epidemiological design (cohort or case–con- trol, prospective, or retrospective), ... See full document

... for studies that assessed the relationship between postoperative complications and prognosis after radical ...to studies on humans and to those that were published in the English ...the ... See full document

... scoping systematic literature review and meta-analysis of all observational studies published up to early 2014 in order to map trends in the evidence of this ...Mixed-effect ... See full document

... group care are needed to emphasize gestational weight gain goals and its accom- panying adverse perinatal and long-term maternal out- comes such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease especially ... See full document

... post-acute care, includ- ing rehabilitation. Whilst hip fracture surgery is highly effective, patients are likely to experience significant morbidity in terms of pain, discomfort and limited mobility during ... See full document

... this meta-analysis suggests a statistically significant and clinically important increased risk for de- veloping MS in those with tonsillectomy and appendec- tomy at ≤ 20 years of ...epidemiological ... See full document

... recent meta-analysis by Santesso and co-workers [7] who reported weight loss, WC, HDL-C, TG, SBP, DBP and FI to be significantly more improved following short-and long-term HP diets as ... See full document

... of studies when we come across relevant abstracts. Studies published in any language other than English will be translated by the authors (German, Greek) or professionally, before ...published ... See full document

... This systematic review and meta-analysis was intended to estimate the pooled prevalence of DM among TB patients in ...this review was registered in the International Prospective ... See full document

... higher risk of death is still a ...a systematic review and meta-analysis of all prospective obser- vational studies (POSs) and retrospective observational ... See full document

... whereas long-term (1–4 months) coffee consumption has no effect on blood pressure ...recent meta-analyses of observational studies of caffeine intake in relation to AF risk did ... See full document

... our analysis that would limit the generalization of our fi ...between studies may be explained by different population, sample size, omentin assay kit, participants ’ BMI and age, presence of other ... See full document

... potential heterogeneity sources were explored by subgroup meta-analyses and univariate meta-regression analyses [19]. The factors investigated were: study location, length of follow-up, and individual ... See full document

... seven studies involving 121 patients met the inclusion criteria for further ...Our analysis showed positive results of ECP for ...this review, because the number of patients enrolled in trials is ... See full document

... dose–response analysis was conducted based on the category data of BMI, number of cases, person-years, and logarithm of RRs and its corresponding standard ...eligible studies should provide sufficient ... See full document