There was a significant association between funding and conclusion on weight gain.
There was no significant association between source of funding and conclusion on other reported clinical outcomes (Tables 14, 15, 16 and 17).
There was a significant association between source of funding and conclusion on weight gain (Chi-square p = 0.037, Fisher exact p = 0.024) such that industry-funded trials were more likely to report positive conclusions on weight gain than non-industry-funded trials (Table 13).
The fund's conclusion is that "in many countries it might indeed be possible to raise more from those with the highest incomes".
Although no statistically significant association between funding and authors conclusion was found in this review, more than 70% of RCTs reported positive conclusions, 47.8% of these were industry sponsored.
Regardless of the makeup of the fund, the obvious conclusion was that when the fund was large in relation to the number of workers, wages would be high.
In conclusion, funding from the major U.S. research funders across therapeutic areas in medicine has increased over the last decade, is aligned with disease burden in high income countries, but is not linked to the development of new medical therapies.
The Russian government provided funds towards the conclusion of the project.
It is recommended that future research examine this body of literature and investigate the association between industry funding and qualitative conclusions regarding cancer risk.
We used Cochran-Armitage test for ordinal data to compare the number of RCTs that included actual costs and any mention of costs associated with funding and study conclusions.
