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Record W3170565777 · doi:10.1101/2021.06.10.21258688

Maternal cigarette smoking and cleft lip and palate: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2021· review· en· W3170565777 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Matthew Fell, Kyle Dack, Shaheel Chummun, Jonathan Sandy, Yvonne Wren, Sarah J. Lewis

Bibliographic record

VenuemedRxiv · 2021
Typereview
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicCleft Lip and Palate Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersMedical Research CouncilUniversity of BristolVTCT FoundationNational Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health PromotionU.S. Department of Health and Human Services
KeywordsMedicineMeta-analysisObservational studyOdds ratioEtiologyCohort studyDentistryStudy heterogeneityPopulationMEDLINEPublication biasEnvironmental healthInternal medicine

Abstract

ABSTRACT Objectives A systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the association between active maternal smoking and cleft lip and palate etiology. Data Sources Medline, Embase, Web of Science and the Cochrane database from inception to November 2020. Study selection Observational studies of cigarette smoking habits in pregnant women. Outcomes included cleft lip and/or palate, cleft lip ± palate and cleft palate only. Data analysis Publication bias analyses were performed and the Newcastle Ottawa scales were used to assess study quality. Fixed or random effect models were used in the meta-analysis, dependent on risk of statistical heterogeneity. Results Forty-five studies were eligible for inclusion of which 11 were cohort and 34 were case-control studies. Sixteen studies were of sufficient standard for inclusion in the meta-analysis. The summary odds ratio for the association between smoking and cleft lip and/or palate was 1.42 (95%CI 1.27 to 1.59) with a population attributable fraction of 4% (95%CI 3% - 5%). There was limited evidence to show a dose-response effect of smoking. Conclusions This review reports a moderate association between maternal smoking and orofacial cleft but the overall quality of the conventional observational studies included was poor. There is a need for high quality and novel research strategies to further define the role of smoking in the etiology of cleft lip and palate.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

The three-model screen

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All three models called this out of scope.

stratum: about_only · design weight: 3321.24 (the sample is stratified; any rate computed without the weight is wrong)
Claude Opus 4.8OUT
genre: empirical
about Canada: no
confidence: high

Systematic review and meta-analysis used to answer an etiological question about smoking and orofacial clefts; uses a synthesis method rather than studying one.

GPT-5.6 (high)OUT
genre: empirical
about Canada: no
confidence: high

This systematic review answers a clinical etiological question rather than studying evidence synthesis methodology.

Grok 4.5OUT
genre: empirical
about Canada: no
confidence: high

Uses systematic review and meta-analysis to answer a clinical etiology question; method used, method not studied.

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.021
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Meta-analysis · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.000

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.021
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0170.023
Bibliometrics0.0070.007
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.067
GPT teacher head0.353
Teacher spread0.286 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designMeta-analysis
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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