A systematic review and meta‐analysis was performed to investigate the ability of simple
measures of childhood obesity such as body mass index (BMI) to predict future obesity in …

Importance Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of individual participant data (IPD) aim to
collect, check, and reanalyze individual-level data from all studies addressing a particular …

Obese children are at higher risk of being obese as adults, and adult obesity is associated
with an increased risk of morbidity. This systematic review and meta‐analysis investigates …

African trypanosomes cause human sleeping sickness and livestock trypanosomiasis in sub-
Saharan Africa. We present the sequence and analysis of the 11 megabase-sized …

Staphylococcus aureus is an important nosocomial and community-acquired pathogen. Its
genetic plasticity has facilitated the evolution of many virulent and drug-resistant strains …

Bordetella pertussis, Bordetella parapertussis and Bordetella bronchiseptica are closely
related Gram-negative β-proteobacteria that colonize the respiratory tracts of mammals. B …

Burkholderia pseudomallei is a recognized biothreat agent and the causative agent of
melioidosis. This Gram-negative bacterium exists as a soil saprophyte in melioidosis …

We determined the complete genome sequence of Clostridium difficile strain 630, a virulent
and multidrug-resistant strain. Our analysis indicates that a large proportion (11%) of the …

Systematic reviews are difficult to keep up to date, but failure to do so leads to a decay in
review currency, accuracy, and utility. We are developing a novel approach to systematic …

Background Meta-analyses based on individual patient data (IPD) are regarded as the gold
standard for systematic reviews. However, the methods used for analysing and presenting …