Healthy lifestyles in relation to cardiometabolic diseases among schoolteachers: A cross-sectional study.

Background: We aimed to explore the associations of adherence to an overall healthy lifestyle with cardiometabolic diseases (CMDs) among schoolteachers in China.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis among 2983 teachers (aged 39.8 ± 9.

Sensitivity analysis for publication bias in meta-analyses.

We propose sensitivity analyses for publication bias in meta-analyses. We consider a publication process such that 'statistically significant' results are more likely to be published than negative or "non-significant" results by an unknown ratio, . Our proposed methods also accommodate some plausible forms of selection based on a study's standard error.