Review Article
The Effect of Hormone Replacement Therapy on Dry Eye Syndrome Evaluated with Schirmer Test and Break-Up Time
Table 5
Results of the sensitivity analysis.
| | Excluded study | Schirmer test change with anesthetics | Schirmer test change without anesthetics | BUT change | | Heterogeneity | Overall effect | Heterogeneity | Overall effect | Heterogeneity | Overall effect | | Chi2 | | value | Chi2 | | value | Chi2 | | value |
| | Erdem et al., 2007 [14] | Not applicable | <0.00001 | / | / | / | 16.52 | 99% | 0.07 | | Affinito et al., 2003a [7] | Not applicable | 0.11 | / | / | / | / | / | / | | Guaschino et al., 2003 [6] | / | / | / | 129.95 | 98% | 0.02 | / | / | / | | Affinito et al., 2003b [7] | / | / | / | 130.74 | 98% | 0.02 | / | / | / | | Taner et al., 2004 [15] | / | / | / | 11.37 | 74% | <0.00001 | 259.69 | 99% | 0.28 | | Scuderi et al., 2012a [13] | / | / | / | 124.28 | 98% | 0.03 | 171.07 | 99% | 0.07 | | Scuderi et al., 2012b [13] | / | / | / | 63.65 | 95% | 0.02 | 96.47 | 98% | 0.19 |
|
|
