meta‐analysisBackground A number of studies have assessed the prognostic value of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), but their results regarding the predictive value of NLR in OSCC are inconsistent. We therefore performed a meta-analysis to clarify ...
In conclusion, the meta-analysis suggested that elevated PLR was negatively related to overall survival of patients with lung cancer, especially for NSCLC patients, patients treated by chemotherapy or radiotherapy and patients with PLR cut-off value of elevated PLR between 150 and 200. However, more...
Therefore, despite the encouraging data on the value of GLS in patients receiving cancer therapy, our meta-analysis suggests the need for larger prospective studies with carefully defined patient populations to determine the value of GLS for predicting CTRCD and to define the most optimal diagnostic...
The prognostic value of FoxP3+regulatory T cells (Tregs) in cancer remains controversial. We did a meta-analysis to assess the prognostic effect of FoxP3+Treg across different types of cancer and to investigate factors associated with variations in this effect. PubMed, Embase, Cochrane CENTRAL a...
The prognostic value of exercise capacity: a review of the literature Am Heart J, 122 (1991), pp. 1423-1431 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar 13 Y. Kwok, C. Kim, D. Grady, M. Segal, R. Redberg Meta-analysis of exercise testing to detect coronary artery disease in wom...
Though our study yielded important results regarding the prognostic value of Ki-67 expression in lymphoma, some limitations existed in our meta-analysis. First, although subgroup analysis adjusted for the cut-off point was conducted and no changing of the prognostic value of Ki-67 was found, the...
However, the prognostic value is still not well understood.In the present meta-analysis the prognostic value of Ki-67/MIB-1 with regard to overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) in cervical cancer was investigated. The databases of PubMed, ISI Web of Science, Cochrane Central...
Meta-regression analysis is presented in Table 2. Results showed that ER and HER2 positivity were negative effect modifiers of the association between NLR and DFS, indicating that the NLR has a greater prognostic value in breast cancers that are ER-negative and/or HER2-negative. The proportion ...
Meta-regression analysis identified maximum LVWT as the sole significant effect modifier of the association between dual pathology and mortality (p = 0.009), showing a stronger relationship proportional to the degree of LVWT (Figure 1B), particularly regardless of age, left ventricular ejection ...
A two-sided P value of less than 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. All statistical analyses were performed using SAS 9.2 software (SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA). RESULTS Patient Characteristics 3, 187 SCAD patients entered in the final analysis after the exclusion of 21 ...