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Table 3.

Meta-Analysis of Correlation Between CAR and Clinicopathological Features in Patients With Pancreatic Cancer.

Clinicopathological features	No. of studies	No. of patients	Effects model	OR (95% CI)	P	Heterogeneity
Clinicopathological features	No. of studies	No. of patients	Effects model	OR (95% CI)	P	I ² (%)	P _h
Gender (male vs female)	6	1450	Fixed	1.38 (1.10-1.74)	.006	12.2	.337
Tumor location (head vs body or tail)	4	1106	Fixed	0.93 (0.72-1.20)	.582	16.8	.307
Disease stage (metastasis vs locally advanced)	2	828	Random	0.70 (0.17-2.90)	.623	93.7	<.001
pN stage (N1 vs N0)	2	278	Random	1.26 (0.42-3.77)	.675	64.7	.093

Abbreviations: CAR, C-reactive protein to albumin ratio; OR, Odds ratio.