Table 5.

The sensitivity analysis results of mLDFA

Study excluded	Remaining samples (KA/MA)	Overall effect			Heterogeneity
		MD	95% CI	p value	I2 (%)	p value
Calliess [33]	313/309	− 0.93	− 2.23 to 0.36	0.16	95	< 0.00001
Dossett [19]	372/368	− 0.73	− 2.12 to 0.67	0.31	96	< 0.00001
Dossett [20]	369/365	− 0.77	− 2.18 to 0.65	0.29	96	< 0.00001
Kaneda [35]	405/404	− 0.86	− 2.24 to 0.53	0.23	96	< 0.00001
MacDessi [31]	343/341	− 0.87	− 2.43 to 0.68	0.27	96	< 0.00001
Matsumoto [29]	383/379	− 1.30	− 2.43 to − 0.01	0.05	94	< 0.00001
McEwen [28]	372/368	− 1.35	− 2.44 to − 0.26	0.02	91	< 0.00001
Yeo [26]	383/379	− 0.75	− 2.16 to − 0.67	0.30	95	< 0.00001
Young [24]	364/359	− 0.85	− 2.16 to 0.61	0.25	96	< 0.00001

MD mean difference