… Any study that examined the risk factors for mortality or cardiac death in patients undergoing
HD was eligible for inclusion in the present meta-analysis. No restrictions were placed on …

… and the risk of pancreatitis. The present systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to …
the association between alcohol consumption and the risk of pancreatitis. We also sought to …

… The results of our meta-analysis also showed that men seems to be a risk factor for
COVID-19 mortality. Sex differences in both the adaptive and innate immune system have been …

… The risk factors influencing the natural course of chronic kidney disease (CKD) … systematic
reviews to date have focused on this issue. The aim of the study is to identify the risk factors for …

… These factors are important for health policy, … systematic review and meta-analysis aims
was to elucidate regional variations in baseline clinical characteristics, presentation, and factors …

… designing predictive models of high risk patients, and also to … at risk for AKI and are there
interventions to mitigate this risk? … to conduct a systematic review of the risk factors associated …

… , our confidence in risk estimates was low for the presence of “any risk factor,” obesity, any
… also common for most major risk factors (tables 3-5). For a given risk factor we would have …

Background Low back pain is highly prevalent and the main cause of years lived with
disability (YLDs). We present the most up-to-date global, regional, and national data on …

… For the purposes of this analysis, baseline mortality figures were calculated in patients in
whom no pre-operative risk factors could be identified (including risk factors which were not …

… risk but the effect size relative to that of traditional risk factors is unknown. We conducted a
systematic review and meta-analysis to compare the risk … to traditional risk factors. Studies …