How to Use meta-analysis in a Sentence

meta-analysis

noun

• The meta-analysis seemed to support the tie score effect.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Two meta-analyses, though, find that people lose a bit more weight on the Mediterranean diet than low-carb.
  — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• One meta-analysis of dozens of studies found an 11 percentile point boost in test scores among students who learn these skills.
  — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
• The researchers point out that as in many meta-analyses, while the link between these foods and tinnitus risk has been found, it can not be assumed that there is a causal relationship.
  — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 19 Mar. 2025
• Legge suspects that no amount of meta-analysis will convince outdoor cat lovers to change their behavior.
  — Celia Ford, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2023
• The same meta-analysis has found that cannabis users actually consume more calories than non-users, but still have a lower BMI.
  — Melissa Matthews, Men's Health, 7 July 2023
• Look at the meta-analyses, which try to make sense of the body of evidence, and find one where a particular kind of diet outperforms others long-term by more than a few pounds.
  — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• That is the key finding of my team’s new meta-analysis, just published in the journal Annals of Pharmacotherapy.
  — C. Michael White, The Conversation, 8 Nov. 2023
• Joshi’s meta-analysis focused on cover crops grown in cornfields around the world and found that, on average, cover crops increased carbon stored in the soil by about 7 percent.
  — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
• The authors then combined the results of the multiple studies to get a summary estimate, a process called meta-analysis.
  — Sarah Sloat, Health, 24 Feb. 2023
• And while cluster headaches commonly occur during the night, migraines usually come on during the day, the meta-analysis found.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2023
• Both meta-analyses have been widely misinterpreted as showing that face masks don’t work.
  — Martin Cetron, STAT, 2 May 2023
• To try to clarify the issue, the venerable Cochrane Library led a meta-analysis of available data.
  — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
• This meta-analysis is limited by the fact that decaf coffee's benefits depend on CGA dosage.
  — Lauren O'Connor, Ms, Health, 8 Oct. 2024
• People who equate masks with tyranny recently seized on a meta-analysis of 78 studies as proof that masks are of no value whatsoever.
  — William Falk, The Week, 18 Mar. 2023
• One recent meta-analysis reported higher heart attack risks in e-cigarette users than in those who did not vape or smoke anything.
  — Christina Jewett, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• The new systematic review and meta-analysis, published in the Annals of Medicine, set out to explore the existing evidence to reach some kind of conclusion.
  — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 12 July 2023
• Eat Earlier in the Day One meta-analysis examined how the timing of meals during the day affected daytime hunger and other factors involved in weight loss.
  — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 21 Mar. 2025
• The Limitations of the Study LaMotte noted that since the new research is a meta-analysis (an analysis of several trials), there is room for critique of the certainty of the findings.
  — Amber Sayer, Health, 25 Sep. 2023
• According to one meta-analysis, the chances of a favorable stroke outcome decline by 16% for every hour that passes without treatment.
  — Bree Iskandar, STAT, 15 Aug. 2023
• Before the meeting in 2007, a meta-analysis from the group had concluded an oral dose of phenylephrine was effective as an alternative to treat congestion.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2023
• This research wasn’t included in the meta-analysis because it was published too recently, notes Bucher.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 9 Apr. 2025
• Women tend to remember a few more dreams than men, on average, according to a 2008 meta-analysis of multiple dream studies.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2023
• But one meta-analysis of 10 studies found it was associated with improvements to patients’ gait speed and cadence.
  — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• The article also is not a systematic review or a meta-analysis.
  — Dave Wessner, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• Some researchers think that having food in your mouth longer may promote the release of gut hormones that reduce appetite, according to a 2022 Nutrition Bulletin meta-analysis.
  — Women's Health, 21 Mar. 2023
• The results of the meta-analysis suggest that private offices seem to provide the same protection from infectious disease that private hospital rooms do.
  — Danish Kurani, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024
• By conducting a meta-analysis of 14 cohort studies, the commission found a 47% increase in risk for dementia in adults who have untreated vision loss.
  — Rohan Rajeev, STAT, 31 July 2024
• The researchers acknowledge that the studies included in their meta-analysis are of limited number and low-quality.
  — Justin Laube, EverydayHealth.com, 28 Apr. 2025
• Each of those studies was itself a meta-analysis, based on an examination of data from a number of other prior independent studies.
  — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 14 Apr. 2025