Fig. 2.
Forest plots illustrating the risk of composite events. For Jairath et al.35 and Walsh et al.,36 data were obtained by contacting the authors. Composite events: myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, unstable angina, stroke, acute kidney injury, mesenteric ischemia, peripheral ischemia, and mortality (occurring within 30 days); group 1 studies: patients with cardiovascular disease undergoing cardiac or vascular procedures (surgery or catheterization); group 2 studies: elderly patients undergoing orthopedic surgery; group 3 studies: mixed surgical/medical patient population admitted to an acute care facility (emergency or intensive care unit). M-H = Mantel-Haenszel data analysis.