Examples of using Meta-analysis in English and their translations into Malay
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Concentric evertor strength differences and functional ankle instability: A meta-analysis".
Those trials that could be included in a meta-analysis showed improvements in heart failure symptoms and in the function of the heart.
Kidney bean pulses alone lowered insulin andfasting blood glucose in a meta-analysis of 41 clinical studies.
This meta-analysis shows that methyldopa reduces systolic/diastolic blood pressure by approximately 13/8 mmHg compared to placebo.
Efficacy of Pregabalin in acutepostoperative pain under different surgical categories: a meta-analysis. Medicine, 94(46).
The research included a meta-analysis of four other studies involving nearly 250,000 individuals over the course of 12 years.
Zinc levels in seminal plasma and their correlation with male infertility:A systematic review and meta-analysis. Sci Rep. 2016; 6: 22386.
The meta-analysis indicated- with moderate certainty- that taking a combination of calcium and vitamin D may increase the risk of stroke.
We were able to use data from nine studies in a meta-analysis measuring the impact of FAST for children aged between five and eight years.
Meta-analysis of 40 treatment comparisons revealed a small but statistically significant lowering of blood pressure(systolic and diastolic) of 1.8 mmHg.
We were only able to combine the results from six studies in a meta-analysis, a statistical method to summarise the results from several independent studies.
A meta-analysis published in 2014 examined 21 different nicotine replacement therapy trials and found no clear evidence of heart and blood vessel risk.
Clinical review: The benefits and harms of systemic testosterone therapy in postmenopausal women with normal adrenal function:a systematic review and meta-analysis.
One meta-analysis in the journal Circulation calculated a 42-percent increase in coronary heart disease for those who eat one serving of processed meat a day.
Blood Pressure- grape seed extract given at standard doses may help to reduce blood pressure,as confirmed by a meta-analysis of several randomized controlled clinical trials.
A recent systematic review and meta-analysis also reported that the majority of studies showed improvement in seasonal allergies in response to probiotic treatment(25).
Reviews of diagnostic studies are more challenging because of more variation in questions& designs, specific sources of bias& variation,and the need to use more complex statistical approaches to meta-analysis.
In a meta-analysis published in the May 2008 issue of the International Journal of Oncology, Swedish researchers found significant associations between long-term cell phone use and brain tumor risk.
When your review includes quantitative information and the studies in your review are sufficiently similar,you can conduct statistical meta-analysis where you combine the data from the various studies and provide an overall effect size for the phenomenon under investigation.
A 2013 meta-analysis found that huperzine A may be efficacious in improving cognitive function, global clinical status, and activities of daily living for individuals with Alzheimer's disease.
Although a number of scholars and managers had previously expressed fears that employee careers might suffer andworkplace relationships might be damaged because of telecommuting, the meta-analysis found that there are no generally detrimental effects on the quality of workplace relationships and career outcomes.
A systematic review and meta-analysis published on July 11, 2012, found that"use of ACE inhibitors was associated with a significant 34% reduction in risk of pneumonia compared with controls.".
The meta-analysis- a review of existing scientific literature- by Yamada Tomahide of the University of Tokyo and colleagues, covered more than 300,000 people of Asian and European origin from around the world.
We were unable to use the remaining nine included studies in a meta-analysis because of insufficient data, or because the interventions used in the control groups(without a task-oriented intervention) were too different to combine.
For example, a meta-analysis compared twelve different antidepressants in terms of their effects and tolerability, and showed that mirtazapine was especially effective and relatively well tolerated by most patients.
The issue was covered by the meta-analysis(where the results of several experiments are combined and analysed together) from the previous section, which found numerous positive effects of nicotine on attention.
For example, a meta-analysis of 23 randomized trials involving 1,757 people found that St. John's Wort worked better than a placebo and almost as well as standard antidepressants for mild to moderate symptoms(1,3).
In 1995, a meta-analysis of 38 controlled clinical studies8 concluded that substituting soy protein for animal protein significantly lowered total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglycerides without affecting HDL cholesterol.
The meta-analysis included 37 studies of 27,946 children and demonstrated that programs were effective at reducing adiposity, although not all individual interventions were effective, and there was a high level of observed heterogeneity(I2= 82 percent).
For a meta-analysis on the effect of weighting to reduce bias in non-probability samples, see Table 2.4 in Tourangeau, Conrad, and Couper(2013), which leads the authors to conclude“adjustments seem to be useful but fallible corrections…”.