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Siegfried N, Muller M, Deeks JJ, Volmink J. Male circumcision for prevention of heterosexual acquisition of HIV in men. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009;(2):CD003362. pmid:19370585 Davey Smith G, Egger M, Phillips AN. Meta-analysis. Beyond the grand mean? BMJ. 1997;315(7122):1610–4. pmid:9437284 Sterne JA, Hernan MA, Reeves BC, Savovic J, Berkman ND, Viswanathan M, et al. ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions. BMJ. 2016;355:i4919. pmid:27733354 Reviewers should discuss their results in a balanced way: many of the included studies might be far from perfect, even if the overall estimate comes with a narrow confidence interval [ 41], and researchers should keep in mind that statistical significance is not an indicator of whether a true relation exists or not. Big numbers cannot compensate for bias. If included studies have a low risk of bias and heterogeneity does not seem large, researchers may conclude that the main results provide reasonably valid estimates. On the other hand, if many studies are at high risk of bias, researchers should conclude that the true effect remains uncertain. The Grades of Recommendation, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) system can be helpful to formally judge ‘the extent of our confidence that the estimates of an effect are adequate to support a particular decision or recommendation’ [ 92], taking into account study design, risk of bias, degree of inconsistency, imprecision and indirectness (applicability) of results, and reporting bias [ 93]. da Costa BR, Hilfiker R, Egger M. PEDro's bias: summary quality scores should not be used in meta-analysis. J Clin Epidemiol. 2013;66(1):75–7. pmid:23177896

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Meta-analyses depend on how data are presented in individual articles. Especially in the context of observational studies, researchers may face the problem that different metrics are used for the same exposure–outcome association, depending on study design or statistical models used. Consider the association between smoking (exposure) and blood pressure (outcome). In cohort studies, hazard ratios, incidence rate ratios, risk ratios, or odds ratios can be estimated when the outcome is dichotomized, whereas mean difference or standardised mean difference may be reported if this is not the case. Instrumental variables may be useful to control for confounding [ 49]. An instrument is an external variable that is associated with the exposure of interest but ideally is not associated with the outcome variable other than through its effect on the exposure. In essence, instrumental variables circumvent the problem of unmeasured confounding. For example, mendelian randomisation studies make use of common genetic polymorphisms (for example, the rs1229984 variant in the alcohol dehydrogenase 1B gene) that influence levels of modifiable exposures (alcohol intake [ 50]). As with any other instrumental variable analysis, the validity of mendelian randomisation depends critically on the absence of a relationship between the instrument (genes) and the outcome (for example, cardiovascular disease) [ 5].

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