Table 3.

Increase in BMD following one year of using transdermal estrogen

Study	Increase rate (95% confidence interval)	% weight
Stanosz(26)	0.049 (0.021 – 0.110)	16.14
Davas(28)	0.026 (0.012 – 0.058)	61.77
Pereda (29)	0.039 (0.008 – 0.163)	6.80
Yang (30)	0.040 (0.011 – 0.135)	9.80
Gonnelli(33)	0.066 (0.022 – 0.178)	5.49
Fixed pooled	0.034 (0.017 – 0.051)	100