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The authors addressed this potential problem by a subgroup analysis limiting the comparison to only patients with tumors <4.5 cm.

We evaluated the effects of switching by a subgroup analysis that excluded patients who relapsed within two months of the switch period.

Heterogeneity was considered in some manner by 138/166 included reviews (83.1%), whether by a quantitative or qualitative assessment, or by a subgroup analysis or meta-regression.

Third, pravastatin may only be effective in preventing one aetiological subtype of ischaemic stroke — atherothrombotic, as suggested by a subgroup analysis of the J-STARS results (Hosomi et al., in press).

We investigated this potential bias away from the null by a subgroup analysis of the cumulative breast dose in carriers who never had a mammogram before age 30 (table 6).

This notion has been strengthened by a subgroup analysis of the BCIRG-006 study, suggesting that the combination of trastuzumab/doxorubicin is only superior to trastuzumab/docetaxel in tumours harbouring an amplification of TOP2A (Press et al, 2005).

We have tried to replicate the result by performing a subgroup analysis to compare the diagnostic accuracy of presepsin with PCT in the ED, which approximately represented the earlier stage of sepsis.

In addition, we analysed potential confounders by performing a subgroup analysis.

If sources of heterogeneity were suggested by metaregression, a subgroup analysis according to those covariables was performed.

Third, it is possible that detection bias occurred if adults with diabetes had more frequent contact with their physicians and therefore were more likely to be detected with cancer; although we attempted to rule out this bias by conducting a subgroup analysis among participants who presumably accessed care because they had been treated for hypertension and/or high cholesterol.

Progression-free survival was likewise stratified by treatment modality; a subgroup analysis of KRAS wild-type patients was also performed.