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Fig. 5 | BMC Public Health

Fig. 5

From: Childhood obesity and adult cardiovascular disease risk factors: a systematic review with meta-analysis

Fig. 5

Forest plot for the association between childhood obesity and adult DBP. Legend: The common metric for the effect size for each study is the Fisher’s r to z transformation of the correlation statistics. The vertical lines in the middle of each straight line represent the mean of Fisher’s Z while the left and right extremes of the vertical lines represent the corresponding 95% CI. The middle of the black diamond represents the overall mean for Fishers Z while the left and right extremes of the diamond represent the corresponding 95% CI. Combined measures represent those studies in which males and females were combined, different age cohorts from each study were combined, multiple readings from the same cohort were combined, or one study using more than one exposure definition

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