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Table 3 Sensitivity analyses

From: Influences of remote ischemic preconditioning on postoperative delirium and cognitive dysfunction in adults after cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Study excluded

OR (95% CI)

I2 (%)

P for Cochrane’s Q test

P for overall effect

Influence of RIPC on POD

 Hudetz 2015

1.08 [0.83, 1.42]

0

0.86

0.56

 Meybohm 2015

0.86 [0.49, 1.52]

0

0.77

0.61

 Brown 2016

1.07 [0.81, 1.41]

0

0.65

0.64

 Kim 2017

1.06 [0.80, 1.42]

0

0.65

0.68

 Wang 2019

1.07 [0.82, 1.41]

0

0.75

0.60

 Gasparovic 2019

1.09 [0.83, 1.43]

0

0.76

0.55

Influence of RIPC on POCD

 Jing 2011

0.72 [0.42, 1.23]

41

0.15

0.23

 Joung 2013

0.54 [0.28, 1.04]

51

0.09

0.07

 Meybohm 2013

0.50 [0.22, 1.13]

54

0.07

0.10

 Hudetz 2015

0.78 [0.56, 1.10]

0

0.52

0.15

 Meybohm 2018

0.50 [0.21, 1.19]

55

0.06

0.12

 Gasparovic 2019

0.64 [0.34, 1.18]

54

0.07

0.15

  1. OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval, POD postoperative delirium, POCD postoperative cognitive dysfunction