Abstract:We aimed to explore, in a sample of systematic reviews with meta-analyses of the association between food/diet and health-related outcomes: (i) whether systematic reviewers selectively included study effect estimates in meta-analyses when multiple effect estimates were available, and, (ii) what impact selective inclusion of study effect estimates may have on meta-analytic effects. We randomly selected systematic reviews of food/diet and health-related outcomes published between January 2018 and June 2019. We s… Show more
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