Excluding studies that recruited participants with rapid-cycling.
Criteria for excluding studies were: Reporting data from patients with peri-prosthetic and/or pathological fractures.
Selected languages: the accepted language was English, hence excluding studies published in any other language.
Statistical significance was lost when excluding studies of malignancies other than breast cancer or hematological malignancies and excluding studies with Newcastle-Ottawa scores <8, but the direction of effect and magnitude remained approximately the same.
One problem with excluding studies is that it limits the variation our data and thus restricts the types of comparisons we can make.
Secondly, we re-ran all pooled and meta-analyses by excluding studies where the genotype distribution deviated from HWE in the control group [9, 13].
I think a fair reading of the evidence (excluding studies funded by the College Board) is that SAT scores are either correlated minimally or not at all with college performance and are certainly less predictive than high school average.
On humans, i.e. excluding studies of RV in animals.
Sensitivity analyses were conducted excluding studies with lower quality according to the quality assessment tool.
Sensitivity analyses were performed after excluding studies specifically on extra-pulmonary TB, or restricting the analysis specifically on pulmonary TB.
After excluding studies specifically addressing extra-pulmonary TB, the associations between SLC11A1 polymorphisms and TB were not substantially changed (see Table S4).
