"Apparent health benefits [of alcohol use] can be consistently created through studies that bias the abstainer reference group toward ill health." #MetaAnalysis of 100+ studies shows assumed health-benefit of moderate alcohol use: ▶️Only exists for biased studies ▶️Disappears when bias controlled
it kind of sucks to not be able to believe anything about polls or poll aggregators because it sucks to have no quantitative information about what might happen but... here we are. I picked one to look at as an anxiety-management mechanism but I might as well take up haruspicy
#MetaAnalysis folks take note! The AERA SIG on Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis will be back with our online seminar series this Fall! We've got an awesome line-up over the next few months, starting (Fri 9/27) with Getting Meta-Analysis Done: A Panel Discussion with Experienced Reviewers.
Yet another one indicated as an RCT onlinelibrary.wiley.... It is a two-arm test using HCQ (!!) or with hypertonic alkaline solution, only 30 vs 30 subjects. When your input is substandard, your metaanalysis is substandard. 5/5
🙏 Many thanks ... ... to my wonderful co-authors: Victoria Opara, Ditte Barnoth, Miki Weselowska, and Sayeh Yousefi, the many authors of original studies who responded to our questions and many others who helped along the way! [8/8] #Diversity#TeamPerformance#Leadership#MetaAnalysis#OpenScience
#MetaAnalysis#milk#soymilk#plantbased#ultraprocesseddoi.org/10.1186/s129...#UPF#NOVA#dairy#diets
Background Dietary guidelines recommend a shift to plant-based diets. Fortified soymilk, a prototypical plant protein food used in the transition to plant-based diets, usually contains added sugars to...
Is it even a real metaanalysis if the conclusion isn't "more high quality studies are needed"?
#MedSky🧪#IDSky#PublicHealth#NeuroImmunology#metaanalysis#LongCovid patients typically exhibit heightened immune-inflammation, enhanced cell-mediated immunity, & immune-related neurotoxicity.
#statstab#metaanalysis#effectsizewww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
Meta-analyses of a treatment’s effect compared to a control frequently calculate the meta-effect from standardized mean differences (SMDs). SMDs are usually estimated by Cohen’s d or Hedges’ g. Cohen’...
