Extended Data Fig. 1: Forest plot of the association between secondhand smoke exposure and ischemic heart disease. | Nature Medicine

Extended Data Fig. 1: Forest plot of the association between secondhand smoke exposure and ischemic heart disease.

From: Health effects associated with exposure to secondhand smoke: a Burden of Proof study

Extended Data Fig. 1

This forest plot presents the estimated mean relative risk, its 95% uncertainty intervals (UI), and the data points underlying the estimates for ischemic heart disease in association with secondhand smoke exposure (two-star rating of the risk-outcome relationship). The color of the point indicates whether the point was detected and trimmed as an outlier. The light blue interval corresponds to the 95% UI incorporating between-study heterogeneity; the dark blue interval corresponds to the 95% UI without between-study heterogeneity. The black vertical dotted line reflects the null relative risk value (one) and the red vertical line is the burden of proof function at the 5th quantile for this harmful risk-outcome association. The black data points and horizontal lines each correspond to a mean effect size and 95% UI from the included study identified on the y-axis. We included multiple observations from a single study when effects were reported by location or source of exposure and/or separately by sex or other subgroups. See Supplementary Table 4 for more details on included observations from each study (n = 37 studies).

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