4 ms·
Agreed, further: >every significant clinical study of drugs and dietary supplements for the treatment or prevention of cardiovascular disease between 1974 and
by shoguning 8y ago
Agreed, further:
>every significant clinical study of drugs and dietary supplements for the treatment or prevention of cardiovascular disease between 1974 and 2012
There is room for a lot of bias when selecting which studies are 'significant' and on topic. Not to mention deciding which metric to report from the study.
- capnrefsmmat 8y agoTheir procedure was carefully documented, including the inclusion criteria and how exactly they categorized the studies. They even had two teams independently search the literature to find studies meeting the criteria: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0132382#sec006 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... Literature reviews in meta-analyses are usually conducted like this, with specified lists of search keywords and flow charts of inclusion criteria.