Table 10 Results of Begg and Egger's tests
Outcome | No. of studies | Begg’s test | Egger’s test | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Z | P-value | Kendall’s tau | P-value | |
BMI | 10 | -2.9174 | 0.0035 | -0.0222 | 1.0000 |
SBP | 5 | -1.3229 | 0.1859 | -0.2000 | 0.1867 |
DBP | 5 | -1.5941 | 0.1109 | -0.4000 | 0.4833 |
FPG | 14 | -2.2496 | 0.0245 | -0.4286 | 0.0356 |
HbA1c | 13 | -0.9014 | 0.3673 | -0.2308 | 0.3062 |
PPBS | 11 | -2.2267 | 0.0260 | -0.4182 | 0.0866 |
TC | 9 | -0.8218 | 0.4112 | -0.0556 | 0.9195 |
HDL | 9 | 2.2070 | 0.0273 | 0.5000 | 0.0752 |
LDL | 6 | -1.1076 | 0.2680 | -0.3333 | 0.4694 |
TG | 9 | 0.8232 | 0.04104 | 0.2778 | 0.3585 |
FINS | 10 | -0.8661 | 0.3864 | -0.2444 | 0.3807 |