甲状腺功能障碍对头癌的临床结果的影响:系统性审查和元分析
Sandeepa N C1, Tina S Roberts2, Johan Frank Opperman3
1Dept. Diagnostic Sciences, College of Dentistry, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia. sendya@kku.edu.sa.
甲状腺功能障碍不会显著影响头癌 (HNC) 的存活率. 在考虑到研究异质性后,这项元分析发现甲状腺状况与HNC患者的整体存活率之间没有关联.
科学领域:
- 在瘤学瘤学.
- 内分泌学 在内分泌学.
- 医学统计 医学统计
背景情况:
- 甲状腺功能障碍对头癌 (HNC) 结果的影响正在调查中.
- HNC治疗,特别是放射治疗,可以影响甲状腺功能.
- 关于甲状腺状况和HNC存活率的先前研究显示了不同的结果.
研究的目的:
- 综合关于甲状腺状况与HNC患者生存率之间的关联的证据.
- 为了比较甲状腺功能障碍的HNC患者与非甲状腺患者的生存结果.
- 为了澄清甲状腺功能障碍与头癌预后之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 按照PRISMA指南进行系统审查和元分析.
- 搜索了主要的数据库 (Medline,Embase,Scopus等等) 从2000年1月开始到2024年10月.
- 使用固定效应和随机效应模型,评估异质性 (I2统计) 的整体生存的聚合危险比率 (HR).
主要成果:
- 包括六项研究;四项 (671名参与者) 提供了用于元分析的数据.
- 最初的分析显示,聚合HR为0.99 (p=0.0013) 具有显著的异质性 (I2=81.5%).
- 随机效应模型,考虑到异质性,产生了1.45的汇总HR (p=0.3601),表明甲状腺状况和HNC整体存活率之间没有显著的关联.
结论:
- 在研究甲状腺状况和HNC存活率方面存在实质性的异质性.
- 考虑到异质性,甲状腺状况和HNC存活率之间没有发现显著的关联.
- 需要进一步研究更大的样本大小和标准化定义.
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