Meta-analysis is a method to succinctly summarize and combine the results from multiple individual studies.
A meta-analysis was conducted to determine the effect of consumption of psyllium-enriched cereal products on blood lipid concentrations in 404 adults with mild to moderate hypercholesterolemia consuming a low fat diet (Olson et al., 1997).
A meta-analysis of 60 studies evaluated the effects of individual fats on risk of coronary artery disease.
A meta-analysis of 21 studies on 347,747 healthy adults suggests that dietary saturated fat is not linked to cardiovascular disease or stroke. Read Summary >
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A huge meta-analysis of the wildly popular low-carbohydrate diets has proved, yet again, that there's no easy answer to weight loss.
Carrying out meta-analysis did not overcome this problem since few studies included the same comparisons and outcomes.
The results of a 1995 meta-analysis (combining results from separate but related studies) published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that consuming an average of 47 grams of soy protein a day, rather than animal protein, ...
Then in 2004, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine re-analyzed the data (a meta-analysis) from 19 major clinical trials that included more than 136,000 individuals.
Whelton; Ashley Chin, MPH, MA; Xue Xin, MD, MS; and Jiang He, MD, PhD. Effect of Aerobic Exercise on Blood Pressure: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized, Controlled Trials. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2 April 2002 Volume 136 Number 7, 493-503.
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Researchers may conduct a systematic review to summarize and evaluate a group of clinical trials that meet certain criteria. A meta-analysis is a review that includes a statistical analysis of data combined from many studies.
In the second study, the average ranged from 10.3 pounds for the Atkins group to 4.8 pounds for the Ornish group [19]. A meta-analysis that included the first of these studies plus four others concluded: ...
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