Table 2 Sensitivity analysis of meta-analysis between NLR and mortality.

From: Prognostic value of pre-treatment neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in patients with brain metastasis from cancer: a meta-analysis

 

HR

95% CI

I2 (%)

Using a fixed-effect model

1.67

[1.52, 1.84]

22

All trials

1.82

[1.57, 2.11]

22

Excluding trials with Huanhuan Cui 2022

1.8

[1.54, 2.10]

23

Excluding trials with Mudit Chowdhary 2018

1.9

[1.60, 2.26]

28

Excluding trials with Gundu Naresh 2021

1.72

[1.52, 1.94]

8

Excluding trials with Hongwei Li 2020

1.81

[1.54, 2.12]

24

Excluding trials with HIROSHI DOI 2019

1.75

[1.52, 2.01]

15

Excluding trials with Ye Hong 2022

1.83

[1.55, 2.16]

27

Excluding trials with Lukas Käsmann 2017

1.83

[1.56, 2.15]

27

Excluding trials with HelderPicarelli 2022

1.79

[1.54, 2.08]

22

Excluding trials with Lifeng Zhang 2020

1.91

[1.60, 2.27]

27

Excluding trials with Angelika M 2021

1.95

[1.65, 2.31]

0

Excluding trials with Ren BX 2020

1.76

[1.52, 2.05]

18