Table 2. Subgroup analysis assessing APLA and the risk of RVO by characteristics of included studies.
Subgroup | No. of studies | Summary OR (95% CI) | Heterogeneity | |
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I 2 score (%) | P value | |||
All studies | 11 | 5.18 [3.37, 7.95] | 0.00 | 0.909 |
Geographic location | ||||
Europe | 4 | 5.72[1.88, 17.40] | 0.00 | 0.812 |
America | 3 | 3.87 [1.68, 8.88] | 0.12 | 0.322 |
Asia | 3 | 6.65 [3.29, 13.42] | 0.00 | 0.840 |
Africa | 1 | 4.82 [1.74, 13.39] | N/A | N/A |
Control source | ||||
Healthy controls | 8 | 6.11[3.73, 10.01] | 0.00 | 0.998 |
Without RVO | 3 | 3.21 [1.24, 8.29] | 12.70 | 0.318 |
No. of subjects | ||||
> 100 | 8 | 5.62 [3.34, 9.46] | 0.00 | 0.990 |
< 100 | 3 | 4.61 [1.75, 12.13] | 0.00 | 0.909 |