Research Article

Association of Serum Lipocalin-2 Concentrations with Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis: An Updated Meta-Analysis

Table 2

The characteristics of the study (Baran et al. [7]) after data transformation.

AuthorDataMean (case)SD (case)Mean (control)SD (control)

Baran et al.Original dataMedian (ng/ml)IQRMedian (ng/ml)IQR
86.00(35.00-136.00)38.00(28.00-61.00)
Data after transformationMean (ng/ml)SDMean (ng/ml)SD
85.6477.9042.7227.00

The conversion between median, interquartile range, mean, and standard deviation is based on references [28ā€“30].