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Obesity and Mortality Among Patients Diagnosed With COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has already raised serious concern globally as the number of confirmed or suspected cases have increased rapidly. Epidemiological studies reported that obesity is associated with a higher rate of mortality in patients ...
Tahmina Nasrin Poly +20 more
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Miniaturized light sources at telecommunication wavelengths are essential components for on-chip optical communication systems. Here, we report the growth and fabrication of highly uniform p-i-n core-shell InGaAs/InP single quantum well (QW) nanowire ...
Fanlu Zhang +12 more
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Estimates of heterogeneity (I2) can be biased in small meta-analyses [PDF]
In meta-analysis, the fraction of variance that is due to heterogeneity is known as I2. We show that the usual estimator of I2 is biased. The bias is largest when a meta-analysis has few studies and little heterogeneity.
von Hippel, Paul T.
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Belimumab : a technological advance for systemic lupus erythematosus patients? Report of a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Objectives: To undertake a systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate clinical effectiveness of belimumab for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antinuclear and/or anti-double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) autoantibodies.
Clarke, Aileen +9 more
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Bone mineral density and fracture risk with long-term use of inhaled corticosteroids in patients with asthma: systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Objectives: We aimed to assess the association between long-term use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and bone adverse effects in patients with asthma. Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis of fracture risk and changes in bone mineral density with ...
Agertoft +32 more
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Meta‐analysis has been recognized as the best means to evaluate objectively and study the evidence for a particular issue. In order to give researchers a better understanding of the Meta process, we present an overall introduction to Meta‐analysis in ...
Xu Fang, Nan Zhao, Zhao‐Qiong Zhu
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Parental bonding and alexithymia: A meta-analysis [PDF]
Aim: The primary purpose of this meta-analysis was to explore, clarify and report the strength of the relationship between alexithymia, as measured by the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), and parenting style as measured by the Parental Bonding ...
Lyvers, Michael +3 more
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Meta-analyses in psychology often overestimate evidence for and size of effects
Adjusting for publication bias is essential when drawing meta-analytic inferences. However, most methods that adjust for publication bias do not perform well across a range of research conditions, such as the degree of heterogeneity in effect sizes ...
František Bartoš +5 more
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A meta-analysis of parton distribution functions [PDF]
A "meta-analysis" is a method for comparison and combination of nonperturbative parton distribution functions (PDFs) in a nucleon obtained with heterogeneous procedures and assumptions.
Gao, Jun, Nadolsky, Pavel
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Meta-analysis in Otolaryngology [PDF]
To examine the results of meta-analyses in otolaryngology and compare these results with the individual component studies that constitute each meta-analysis.A retrospective review of the literature.Studies that conducted pooled statistical systematic analyses indexed on MEDLINE for the 10-year period from January 1989 to January 1999 were selected for ...
R, Alsarraf +3 more
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