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Background: Risk ratios or p-values from multiple, independent studies, observational or randomized, can be computationally combined to provide an overall assessment of a research question in meta-analysis. However, an irreproducibility crisis currently afflicts a wide range of scientific disciplines, including nutritional epidemiology. An evaluation was undertaken to assess the reliability of a meta-analysis examining the association between red and processed meat and selected human health effects (all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, overall cancer mortality, breast cancer incidence, colorectal cancer incidence, type 2 diabetes incidence). Methods: The number of statistical tests and models were counted in 15 randomly selected base papers (14%) from 105 used in the meta-analysis. Relative risk with 95% confidence limits for 125 risk results were converted to p-values and p-value plots were constructed to evaluate the effect heterogeneity of the p-values. Results: The number of statistical tests possible in the 15 randomly selected base papers was large, median = 20,736 (interquartile range = 1,728 to 331,776). Each p-value plot for the six selected health effects showed

Author

Young, S. Stanley; Kindzierski, Warren

Published

2021

Language

EN