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Cardiac: congestive heart failure

Network geometry summary

Proportion of potential comparisons with direct data: 0.5

Proportion of treatments compared to more than one other: 0.6

Median number of studies per direct comparison: 1 (interquartile range 1-1)

Proportion of direct comparisons informed by more than one study: 0.2

Meta analysis results

Estimates (and 95% credible intervals) of the odds ratio of each bisphosphonate treatment, versus observation only, under

The panels distinguish the treatment categories under the best-fitting network meta-analysis model.

Note:

Comparison of different treatment groupings

Network meta-analysis models defined on different groupings of treatments are compared.

For the event CARDIAC: CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, observation-only and placebo are considered separately.