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Bubble-plot for meta-regression. Meta-regression analysis showed that the association between obesity and composite poor outcome was affected by age (a) but not by diabetes (b), cardiovascular disease (c), hypertension (d), or COPD (e). COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Circles in the picture indicate studies. The red lines indicate fitted meta-regression line
