Figure 1.
Quality of individual study reports (n = 17 items, n = 83 studies), based on the REMARK guidelines [11].
Definitions of each item are given in Table S2.
Figure 2.
Forest plot of the effect of CRP on prognosis among patients with stable coronary disease.
Studies are grouped according to the extent of adjustment for conventional risk factors.
Figure 3.
Funnel plot with contours showing different levels of study significance.
Figure 4.
Meta-regression of categorical and continuous study level covariates.
Figure 5.
Detection rates at 10% false positive rate and c-statistic for individual studies, and pooled ROC curve.