Fig 1.
Flowchart of article selection.
Table 1.
Characteristics of included studies.
Table 2.
Newcastle-Ottawa Scale for quality assessment of studies included in the meta-analysis.
Fig 2.
Forest plots for the estimate of NLR associated with (A) OS and (B) PFS in the meta-analysis.
Table 3.
Main results of meta-analysis.
Fig 3.
Forest plots for the association of NLR and (A) sex, (B) age, (C) ECOG PS, (D) Ann Arbor stage, (E) LDH level, (F) extranodal disease, (G) IPI score, and (H) presence of B symptoms in meta-analysis.
Fig 4.
Sensitivity analysis for (A) OS and (B) PFS.
Fig 5.
Begg’s test for (A) OS and (B) PFS.