TABLE 2—
Analyses of Weighted Average Effect Sizes Across Type of Preexisting Health Condition: 1990–2010
Type of Health Conditiona | Studies, No. | OR (95% CI) |
None apparent (community samples) | 13 | 0.70 (0.58, 0.85) |
Cardiovascular disease | 11 | 0.75 (0.61, 0.91) |
Cancer | 7 | 1.21 (0.92, 1.59) |
HIV/AIDS | 6 | 0.86 (0.64, 1.17) |
Other conditions | 21 | 0.84 (0.72, 0.99) |
Note. CI = confidence interval; OR = odds ratio, transformed from random effects weighted natural log OR; Qb = Q-value for variance between groups.
Qb = 115; P = .02.