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Table 4 Sensitivity analysis after each study was excluded by turns

From: Bidirectional association between metabolic syndrome and osteoarthritis: a meta-analysis of observational studies

Study omitted

OR (95% CI) for remainders

Heterogeneity

I2 (%)

p

a) MetS predicting OA

 Engstrom et al. K

1.42 (1.24, 1.63)

66.7

0.000

 Engstrom et al. H

1.48 (1.29, 1.69)

67.4

0.000

 Yoshimura et al.

1.41 (1.25, 1.58)

56.8

0.004

 Han et al. M

1.47 (1.28, 1.68)

68.1

0.000

 Han et al. W

1.48 (1.29, 1.70)

67.5

0.000

 Shin et al.

1.45 (1.25, 1.69)

68.6

0.000

 Monira et al. K

1.40 (1.23, 1.59)

57.4

0.003

 Monira et al. H

1.48 (1.28, 1.71)

67.3

0.000

 Visser et al.

1.45 (1.26, 1.67)

68.8

0.000

 Eaton et al.

1.44 (1.26, 1.65)

68.3

0.000

 Xie et al.

1.49 (1.29, 1.71)

62.9

0.001

 Niu et al. M

1.42 (1.24, 1.62)

65.8

0.000

 Niu et al. W

1.46 (1.27, 1.67)

68.9

0.000

 Strand et al.

1.47 (1.28, 1.69)

68.5

0.000

 Sanchez et al. K

1.46 (1.26, 1.69)

68.9

0.000

 Sanchez et al. HA

1.46 (1.26, 1.69)

68.9

0.000

b) OA predicting MetS

 Michishita et al.

1.79 (1.02, 3.15)

91.4

0.000

 Puenpatom et al.

2.08 (1.13, 3.85)

84.5

0.000

 Inoue et al. M

2.16 (1.19, 3.92)

91.7

0.000

 Inoue et al. W

1.87 (1.03, 3.38)

91.5

0.000

 Maddah et al. M

2.20 (1.20, 4.03)

91.6

0.000

 Maddah et al. W

1.87 (1.02, 3.43)

91.2

0.000

 Calvet et al.

1.85 (1.02, 3.35)

91.2

0.000

 Sakina et al.

1.78 (1.00, 3.17)

90.9

0.000

 Askari et al.

1.56 (1.02, 2.39)

79.8

0.000

  1. K knee, H hip, HA hand, W women, M men