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Forest plot of effect size estimates and its 95% confidence intervals representing difference in iron levels between healthy and diabetic subjects
aThe weight of each study indicates its influence on the pooled effect size. A higher percentage weight is shown by a larger box and narrower confidence interval for the respective study in the forest plot
bData represented as weighted average of the effect size for men and women
