Association of peripheral artery disease with abdominal aortic aneurysm growth Hisato Takagi, MD, PhD, Takuya Umemoto, MD, PhD Journal of Vascular Surgery Volume 64, Issue 2, Pages 506-513 (August 2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2016.01.059 Copyright © 2016 Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Forest plot of standardized mean differences (SMDs) of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) growth rates between patients with and without peripheral artery disease (PAD). The horizontal lines represent the 95% confidence intervals (CIs). The solid squares indicate the mean differences and are proportional to the weights used in the meta-analysis. The solid vertical line indicates no effect. The diamond indicates the weighted standardized mean difference, and the lateral tips of the diamond indicate the associated CIs. ADAM, Aneurysm Detection and Management; IV, inverse variance; SMART, Second Manifestations of ARTerial disease; UKSAT, UK Small Aneurysm Trial; VIVA, Viborg Vascular. Journal of Vascular Surgery 2016 64, 506-513DOI: (10.1016/j.jvs.2016.01.059) Copyright © 2016 Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 One-study-removed meta-analysis of standardized mean differences (SMDs) of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) growth rates between patients with and without peripheral artery disease (PAD). The horizontal lines represent the 95% confidence intervals (CIs). The solid squares indicate the weighted standardized mean differences when the corresponding study is removed. The diamond indicates the weighted standardized mean difference when all studies are included, and the lateral tips of the diamond indicate the associated CIs. ADAM, Aneurysm Detection and Management; CI, confidence interval; SMART, Second Manifestations of ARTerial disease; UKSAT, UK Small Aneurysm Trial; VIVA, Viborg Vascular. Journal of Vascular Surgery 2016 64, 506-513DOI: (10.1016/j.jvs.2016.01.059) Copyright © 2016 Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Funnel plot of the precision (reciprocal of standard error [SE]) by the point estimates (standardized mean differences [SMDs]) of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) growth rates between patients with and without peripheral artery disease (PAD). Journal of Vascular Surgery 2016 64, 506-513DOI: (10.1016/j.jvs.2016.01.059) Copyright © 2016 Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions