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Funnel plots for included studies across different diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome.

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posted on 2016-03-23, 06:13 authored by Kim A. Nguyen, Nasheeta Peer, Edward J. Mills, Andre P. Kengne

For each diagnostic criteria, the arcsine transformed proportion of participants with metabolic syndrome (relative to the total sample) for each relevant study (horizontal axis) is plotted against its standard error (vertical axis), and represented by the dots. When the dots distribute symmetrically in a funnel shape, this implies an absence of bias. A p-value <0.05 (Egger test) indicates significant publication bias.

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