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A cut-off score of 5/6 had lower sensitivity (84.3%) but higher specificity (58.6%) to screen major depressive episode compared with the usual cut-off reported previously.
Wijewardena et al., using fasting plasma glucose of between 6.1 and 7 mmol/l as the cut-off, reported impaired fasting glycaemia in 14.2% of the men and 14.1% of the women in their study 6.
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This will overcome limitations related to selective cut-off reporting in many primary study publications.
Two studies evaluating stromal cells PDPN immunoexpression, using equivalent cut-offs, reported contrasting results.
We chose these because they are of practical use and comparable to other cut-offs reported in the literature.
As a proof of the robustness of our findings, the analysis was repeated with different fold-change and P cut-offs, reporting similar qualitative findings.
A bivariate random effect model was used to account for the inherent negative correlation arising from different cut-off values reported by different studies.
The literature search has a cut-off date reported as August 2015.
Most of the participants' scores were not lower than the cut-off value reported in normative studies.
However, our results underlined that MwoA patients' scores were not lower than the cut-off value reported in normative studies [25, 35].
There are some further methodological issues we would like to highlight, since these might alter,in this case even completely change the results of the meta-analysis: The literature search has a cut-off date reported as August 2015.
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