Table 2.

The estimated rates of gastric carcinoma with lymphoid stroma.

	Number of subsets	Fixed effect (95% CI)	Heterogeneity test (P value)	Random effect (95% CI)	Egger's test (P value)	Meta-regression test (P value)
GCLS rate	20	0.097 [0.092, 0.103]	<0.001	0.062 [0.040, 0.097]	0.023	0.392∗
EGC	5	0.087 [0.079, 0.095]	<0.001	0.054 [0.022, 0.129]	0.077
AGC	1	0.136 [0.119, 0.155]	1.000	0.136 [0.119, 0.155]	—

CI, confidence interval; GCLS, gastric carcinoma with lymphoid stroma; EGC, early gastric carcinoma; AGC, advanced gastric carcinoma ∗EGC vs. AGC.