Due to the major consequences of air pollution on human health, this problem is resulting in a major public crisis which requires immediate attention. Nowadays, the prediction of air quality has been ...

Multivariate logistic regression analysis indicated that, in comparison to the control group, postoperative constipation ...

Objective: Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can be confused in clinical diagnosis due to overlapping symptoms. The purpose of this study is to develop a method based on ...

Fourth, although we conducted meta‐regression analysis to explore potential sources of heterogeneity, the inherent lack of statistical power in meta‐regression increases the risk of type 2 errors. 82 ...

Objective To perform a large-scale pairwise and network meta-analysis on the effects of all relevant exercise training modes on resting blood pressure to establish optimal antihypertensive exercise ...

Course content Meta-analyses and systematic reviews are becoming increasingly common in all fields of social science as a way of summarizing data from multiple studies. This course aims to develop a ...

Our meta-analysis includes data for 13 084 (30%) more patients, 1394 (29%) more MACE endpoint events, 1818 (95%) more kidney events, and about 56 000 more years of patient exposure than the largest ...

Objective We aimed to estimate prevalence and identify determinants of hypertension in adults aged 15–49 years in Tanzania. Design We analysed cross-sectional survey data from the 2022 Tanzania ...

These findings are consistent with previous studies. 64–66 A systematic review and meta-analysis consisting of 33 arms with 1610 participants showed that IF resulted in a significant reduction of fat ...

11.1.2 Advantages of network meta-analysis #section-11-1-2 A network meta-analysis exploits all available direct and indirect evidence. Empirical studies have suggested it yields more precise ...

Flexible Statistics and Data Analysis (FSDA) extends MATLAB for a robust analysis of data sets affected by different sources of heterogeneity. It is open source software licensed under the European ...