“…Further, the Galbraith plots showed that the studies performed by Shi et al, Purwar et al, Mendoza-Azpur et al, Thanakun et al, and Karthikeyan et al (L1) [30, 31, 49, 51, 52]; Mendoza-Azpur et al and Sete et al (A1) [16, 31]; and Purwar et al (L2) [57] were located outside of the two lines in the Galbraith plots of the subgroups of BMI <30. After removing the outliers, the heterogeneities effectively decreased, and the results were not materially changed in the subgroups of BMI <30 (L1: SMD = 0.796, 95% CI: 0.572–1.020, P = 0.000; I
2 = 40.9, P = 0.095; A1: SMD = −0.251, 95% CI: −0.408 to −0.095, P = 0.002; I
2 = 13.6, P = 0.323; L2: SMD = −0.162, 95% CI: −0.417 to 0.094, P = 0.215; I
2 = 0.0, P = 0.556).…”