Table 4.

Publication bias

	Corrected effect size		Begg’s rank correlation test			Egger’s linear regression test					Fail-safe N test
	WMD	95% CI	Kendall’s Tau	z-value	p-value	Intercept	95% CI	t	df	p-value	N
FBS	-5.06	-6.25, -3.87	-0.224	1.986	0.046	1.201	0.137,2.264	2.290	36	0.027	3818
Isulin	-1.11	-1.64, -0.58	0.029	0.198	0.842	-0.93	0.53, -2.04	1.74	22	0.947	242
Hb-A1C	0.079	-0.157, 0.315	0.361	01.355	0.175	-0.514	-4.182, 0.152	0.332	7	0.749	0
HOMA-IR	-0.36	-0.49, -0.22	0.143	0.905	0.364	-0.374	-1.706, 0.956	0.58	19	0.562	681
Quicki	0.003	0.001, 0.0006	0.10	0.244	0.806	-0.37	-4.08, 3.33	0.318	3	0.770	3