Regression analysis, adjusting for baseline characteristics (age, gender, education and BP) between participants without follow-up and those included, showed no significant difference in baseline SMMSE (p=0.06) or Qmci scores (p=0.51).
Considering that this point mutation was located at the last amino acid of the peptide leader of the enzyme, MIC values of β-lactams including carbapenems showed no significant difference between NDM-1 and NDM-2 producers.
Excluded patients were compared with those included and no significant differences were found regarding the demographic data.
A meta-analysis in which only studies with early tracheotomy performed within 4 days or 7 days were included reported no significant differences between early and late tracheotomy [ 24].
Gartlehner and colleagues [ 38] also performed a meta-analysis and indirect comparisons between biologics in populations that had residual disease activity despite MTX treatment (that is, excluded MTX-naïve patients), but only the three anti-TNF treatments were included, and no significant differences were found.
When one day of recovery between injuries for the RCHI3 group was included, there was no significant difference in allodynia thresholds compared to controls (Fig. 4a).
At follow-up, 1-7 months after treatment ended, when people who had dropped out were included, there was no significant difference between the two groups.
Although FL has been reported to vary by age in healthy volunteers [ 38], the results from the seven included studies showed no significant difference between children and adults.
Not all the included studies reported duration of treatment; however, the study by Arbeit et al 23 found that significantly more patients in the daptomycin group than patients in the comparator drugs group needed only 4 7 days of treatment; two other included studies found no significant difference existed between the two groups in terms of duration of treatment.
Nine articles reported RBC transfusion, and five articles [ 22, 23, 26, 31, 42] reporting RBC transfusion after surgery were included and showed no significant difference between the HES group and other fluids group (SMD = −0.13; 95% CI −0.33 to 0.08; P = 0.23; I = 4%).
