Table 2 Subgroup and meta-regression analysis of ORs on prognostic role of NLR in stroke patients, 95% conf. intervals, and I-squared values
Subgroup analysis | No. of studies | No. of patients | 95% conf. interval | Meta-regression (p value) | Heterogeneity (random) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
fixed | random | (p value) | I2(%) | ||||
poor functional | |||||||
Overall pooled OR | 12 | 4336 | 1.023(1.011–1.036) | 1.257 (1.146–1.379) | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 86.90% |
Hemorrhage | 6 | 1501 | 1.096(1.041–1.152) | 1.125(1.022–1.239) | < 0.01 | < 0.001 | 82.10% |
cerebral ischemia | 6 | 2835 | 1.019(1.006–1.032) | 1.689(1.184–2.409) | < 0.005 | < 0.001 | 89.60% |
mortality | |||||||
Overall pooled OR | 7 | 3207 | 1.131(1.065–1.202) | 1.632 (1.155–2.306) | 0.207 | < 0.001 | 90.60% |
Hemorrhage | 2 | 688 | 1.11(1.045–1.180) | 1.282 (0.955–1.720) | – | < 0.014 | 87.00% |
cerebral ischemia | 5 | 2519 | 4.473(2.646–7.564) | 3.142(0.683–14.455) | 0.491 | < 0.001 | 83.40% |