Combining only higher-quality studies yields higher meta-estimates of lung cancer risk per unit of exposure than does including all available studies.
Conclusions: This meta-analysis indicates that studies with higher-quality asbestos exposure assessment yield higher meta-estimates of the lung cancer risk per unit of exposure.
Positive and negative values in these maps would signify a higher meta-analytic evidence for, respectively, right and left lateralisation of the function associated with a term.
It should, however, be noted that correction for selection and misclassification bias would lead to higher meta-analytical odds ratios.
However, this analysis also yielded higher meta-KL for studies with fewer limitations in exposure assessment [see Supplemental Material, Table 2 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1002879)].
However there are examples where the regulator with the lowest meta-analysis adjusted p-value only has a significant correlation with the target in one of the data sets, when there are other potential regulators that do have higher meta-analysis adjusted p-values, but have significant correlations with the target in more data sets.
Stratification by exposure assessment characteristics revealed that studies with well-documented exposure assessment, larger contrast in exposure, greater coverage of the exposure history by exposure measurement data, and more complete job histories had higher meta-KL values than did studies without these characteristics.
By the early '90s, high meta had turned into low meta, as the individual self-awareness (of Antonin Artaud or Jorge Luis Borges) gave way to indulgent self-referencing (Philip Roth, Seinfeldd"), which gave way to meta as a stand-alone word.
62 If high, meta-analysis will not be performed.
Although no single study shows GAS6 to rank particularly high, meta-analysis identifies GAS6 as an interesting potential biomarker.
