Table 2 Sensitivity analysis

Low vault vs. Normal vault

 ICL-size

Primary Meta

81

0.001

-0.83 (-1.38, -0.28)

0.003

(Removed) Xiong 2020²⁷

0

0.61

-1.17 (-1.40, -0.94)

< 0.00001

(Removed) Zhang 2021²⁸

82

0.004

-0.64 (-1.40, 0.11)

0.09

(Removed) Cui 2019²¹

88

0.0003

-0.71 (-1.56, 0.13)

0.10

 Age

Primary Meta

0

0.82

0.21 (0.05, 0.36)

0.008

(Removed) Cerpa MS 2021

0

0.96

0.15 (-0.01, 0.32)

0.07

High vault vs. Normal vault

 hWTW

Primary Meta

72

< 0.0001

0.31 (0.06, 0.57)

0.02

(Removed) Wu 2022²⁵

71

0.0004

0.26 (0.00,0.51)

0.05