Meta-analyses
Meta-analyses of experimental data in the animal sciences
... as meta-analyses. The implementation of a meta-analysis is done in several ...the meta-system using the database previously ...extensive analyses of residual variations must be ...Thus, ...
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Can simply answering research questions change behaviour? Systematic review and meta analyses of brief alcohol intervention trials.
... Detailed information is presented in Table 2 on the assessment procedures being evaluated, blinding, and the consequent nature of the experimental contrasts employed. In some trials the experimental manipulations ...
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Circulating biomarkers for predicting cardiovascular disease risk; a systematic review and comprehensive overview of meta-analyses.
... biomarkers. Meta-analyses summarize the results of different cohort studies and present one aggregate score per biomarker, but a general overview presenting the overall results of different biomarkers ...
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The epidemiology of hepatitis C virus in the Maghreb region: systematic review and meta-analyses.
... Our meta-analyses highlighted that there is substantial heterogeneity among the studies conducted in general population ...a meta-regression analysis to identify poten- tial sources of variation to ...
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A HuGE Review and Meta-Analyses of Genetic Associations in New Onset Diabetes after Kidney Transplantation.
... These genetic variants are all established T2D risk factors and several variants have been implicated in potential mechanisms contributing to diabetes. Therefore, it is not surprising that these variants are linked to ...
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Comprehensive review of genetic association studies and meta-analyses on miRNA polymorphisms and cancer risk.
... We also computed the population-attributable risk (PAR) to refer to the proportion of disease risk in Caucasians and Asians that can be attributed to the causal effects of the risk SNP (variant genotype). PAR can be ...
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Evidence from Meta-Analyses of the Facial Width-to-Height Ratio as an Evolved Cue of Threat.
... the meta-analysis found that wider-faced men are judged as less attractive, especially by women, than are narrow-faced ...our meta-analyses found that men with relatively larger FWHRs behaved in more ...
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Efficacy of Short-Term Antiarrhythmic Drugs Use after Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation-A Systematic Review with Meta-Analyses and Trial Sequential Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials.
... sensitivity analysis with consecutively excluding one single trial each time was performed. The meta-analyses after excluding every trial one at a time had no significant effect on the pooled estimate and ...
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Systematic assessment of environmental risk factors for bipolar disorder : an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta analyses
... and meta- analyses of observational studies ex- amining associations of environmental (non- genetic) risk factors with ...“meta- analyses or systematic reviews” applied to the title/abstract/ ...
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Repositório Institucional UFC: Risk factors and peripheral biomarkers for schizophrenia spectrum disorders: an umbrella review of meta-analyses
... 10 meta-analyses (24%), 95% pre- diction intervals excluded the null ...in meta-analyses with evidence for small-study ...in meta-analyses with evidence for excess significance ...
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Association between CYP1A1 Ile462Val variation and acute leukemia risk: meta-analyses including 2164 cases and 4160 controls.
... a meta-analysis regarding the associ- ation of CYP1A1 MspI variation with childhood acute leukemia failed to reveal a significant association ...this meta- analysis focused on CYP1A1 MspI variation but not ...
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Interactions among Candidate Genes Selected by Meta-Analyses Resulting in Higher Risk of Ischemic Stroke in a Chinese Population.
... Previous meta-analyses proposed that the following gene polymorphisms are IS susceptibility gene polymorphisms in the Han Chinese population: methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T, beta ...
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Routine antenatal anti-D prophylaxis in women who are Rh(D) negative: meta-analyses adjusted for differences in study design and quality.
... unadjusted meta-analysis, the weights given to the studies in calculation of the pooled result changed considerably after adjustment for ...the meta-analysis [19], and this was achieved in the analysis of ...
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Age at Menarche, Level of Education, Parity and the Risk of Hysterectomy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses of Population-Based Observational Studies.
... Our meta-analyses have several ...parity meta-analysis, three of the four studies reporting hazard ratios had populations where the majority of participants were aged less than 45 years at the time ...
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Social modulation of androgens in male vertebrates: Meta-analyses of the challenge hypothesis
... The effects of sexual behaviour on T, as well as the reverse effects of exogenous T on sexual behaviour, were largest in nonpaternal species, which was particularly well reflected among mammals and reptiles ( Table 2 ). ...
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A case study of discordant overlapping meta-analyses: vitamin d supplements and fracture.
... and analyses undertaken. For patient-level analyses where data is censored at an earlier timepoint [20], this information is very important because the results at the earlier time point may differ from ...
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Alcohol intake and gastric cancer: Meta-analyses of published data versus individual participant data pooled analyses (StoP Project). Cancer Epidemiol, Alcohol intake and gastric cancer: Meta-analyses of published data versus individual participant data pooled analyses (StoP Project)
... pooled analyses are considered more capable of overcoming some of the limitations of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of published data [5], since they allow access to data not previously ...
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Modifiable factors and esophageal cancer: a systematic review of published meta-analyses.
... Few meta-analyses have focused on these determinants, mainly due to the high heterogeneity found between individual studies included in existing systematic ...existing meta-analyses repor- ted ...
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Meta-analyses of the 5-HTTLPR polymorphisms and post-traumatic stress disorder.
... Thirdly, 5-HTTLPR might not have a primary direct effect on PTSD. As PTSD diagnosis requires exposure to an environmental stressor, it is an ideal condition for the investigation of GxE interactions, where the effects of ...
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Machine learning for the meta-analyses of microbial pathogens' volatile signatures
... The selected data available in the literature was organized in a matrix of labels (pathogens) and features (VOCs), and further used as the input for machine learning steps.. Feature se[r] ...
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