Diabetes has become an important public health issue in the twenty-first century, and dialysis treatment has become a large burden on the National Health Insurance of Taiwan. Diabetic nephropathy(DN) is the leading factor that determines whether patients with diabetes will require dialysis....

Meta-regression models are increasingly utilized to integrate empirical results across studies while controlling for the potential threats of data-mining and publication bias. We propose extended meta-regression models and evaluate their performance in identifying genuine empirical effects by...