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Figure 6

From: Albumin levels in malaria patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of their association with disease severity

Figure 6

Forest plot displaying significantly decreased albumin levels in malaria patients relative to non-malarial controls stratified by methods for Plasmodium identification. SMD stands for standardized mean difference; CI stands for confidence interval; blue squares represent individual study effect estimates; the gray diamond represents the pooled effect estimate. Fourteen studies were observed to be outliers (asterisks)26,27,32,34,35,36,38,39,43,47,52,58,60,61.

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