Gender differences in pulmonary arterial hypertension patients with BMPR2 mutation: a meta-analysis

Respiratory Research

Table 3 Quality Evaluation of the Individual Studies

Study ID	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q5
Austin 2009 [8]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bruggen 2016 [12]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Chida 2012 [20]	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Elliott 2006 [21]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Gamou 2017 [14]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ghigna 2016 [10]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Girerd 2010 [9]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Isobe 2016 [18]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Kabata 2013 [13]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Liu 2012 [11]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mutlu 2016 [23]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Navas 2016 [19]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pfarr 2011 [17]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pousada 2014 [22]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rosenzweig 2008 [24]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sztrymf 2008 [15]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Yang 2018 [16]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes

Q question; Q1 (external validity): Did the patients represent a variety of disease severities?; Q2 (external validity): Did the included study exhibit bias?; Q3 (internal validity): Was the follow-up percentage of all enrolled patients greater than 80%?; Q4 (internal validity): Were the predictors to be evaluated blinded to the outcome events?; Q5 (internal validity): Were the outcome events blinded to the predictors?

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