Table 4.

Effect sizes–SHS and stroke

Nr.	Authors	Sex	RR (95 % CI)	log (rr)	se	n	w (%)
[26]	Bonita et al. (1999)	both sexes	1.65 (1.28–2.16)	0.50	0.13	2,372	15.23
		men	1.87 (1.27–2.77)	0.63	0.20	1,213	25.68
		women	1.53 (1.06–2.22)	0.43	0.19	1,159	9.27
[48]	Glymour et al. (2008)	both sexes	1.42 (1.02–1.92)	0.35	0.16	16,225	10.48
		men	1.63 (0.83–2.70)	0.49	0.30	8,112	14.39
		women	1.46 (1.00–2.18)	0.38	0.20	8,113	8.34
[43]	Iribarren et al. (2004)	both sexes	1.42 (1.08–1.88)	0.35	0.14	27,698	13.60
		men	1.29 (0.75–2.20)	0.25	0.27	10,482	16.56
		women	1.50 (1.07–2.09)	0.41	0.17	17,216	11.30
[24]	McGhee et al. (2005)	both sexes	1.24 (1.08–1.42)	0.22	0.07	5,601	52.98
		men	1.16 (0.92–1.44)	0.15	0.11	3,098	43.38
		women	1.27 (1.06–1.53)	0.24	0.09	2,503	37.59
[73]	Wen et al. (2006)	women	1.52 (1.08–2.15)	0.42	0.18	72,829	10.68
[25]	You et al. (1999)	both sexes	1.44 (0.96–2.01)	0.36	0.19	367	7.71
[74]	Zhang et al. (2005)	women	1.62 (1.28–2.05)	0.48	0.12	60,377	22.83
		Sex	RR (95 % CI)	Q	p	I 2
	Synthesis	both sexes	1.35 (1.22–1.50)	4.08	0.395	2.08
		men	1.40 (1.09–1.81)	4.84	0.184	37.95
		women	1.43 (1.28–.61)	3.02	0.697	0.00