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Parkinson's Disease vs Alzheimer's Disease: NFL (CSF)

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Meta-analysis of five eligible studies showed that the levels of c in the cerebrospinal fluid of people with Parkinson's disease were approximately 60 percent those of people with Alzheimer's disease (effect size = 0.612, p = 0.003).  For comparison, our meta-analysis of 29 comparisons showed that the level of NFL in controls was half that of AD patients. Published meta-analyses comparing Parkinson's patients to control subjects did not find a difference between groups (Bridel et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2017).

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How to interpret a forest plot: Each individual effect size (ES) is a ratio of the mean biomarker level in one condition over the mean level in another condition. An ES equal to 1 means that the two conditions had identical mean values. An ES > 1 indicates higher levels in the first condition, whereas an ES < 1 indicates lower levels in the first condition. The overall ES, indicated by a black diamond, is a weighted average of the individual effect sizes. The weight of each data point was determined by the inverse of the variance and is reflected in the size of each square. The width of the overall ES diamond is determined by the 95 percent confidence interval. Data out of range of the scale, including ES and confidence intervals, are indicated by an arrowhead at the edge of the plot, when applicable. 

Version 3.0, July 2021.