Table 6

Sensitivity Analysis: Impact of Palm Oil Consumption on IHD Mortality, with Growing Economies Removed One at a Time

Dependent variable: IHD mortality

Removed Brazil

Removed Colombia

Removed Ecuador

Removed Egypt

Removed Greece

Removed Mexico

Removed Peru

Removed Russia

Removed Thailand

Removed Venezuela

Palm oil consumption (kg per-capita)

16

17

17

18

17

18

17

5

17

17

95% CI

[4.5 - 28]

[5.1 - 29]

[5.6 - 29]

[6.1 - 29]

[5.2 - 29]

[6.2 - 29]

[5.5 - 29]

[-3.9 - 14]

[6.0 - 29]

[5.4 - 29]

Additional effect of palm oil in developing country (kg per-capita)

50

50

69

46

51

52

51

63

38

49

95% CI

[3.5 - 97]

[-62 - 161]

[23 - 116]

[-7.7 - 99]

[3.5 - 98]

[3.4 - 100]

[4.3 - 99]

[28 - 99]

[-3.8 - 80]

[1.0 - 96]

Observations (country-years)

225

227

226

231

229

223

230

225

226

228

R-squared

0.65

0.58

0.59

0.59

0.58

0.59

0.58

0.45

0.59

0.58

Number of countries

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

Robust standard errors clustered by country. Econometric specification is identical to that of Table 3. Regression analysis was performed eleven times, with a single developing country (listed in the table heading) removed from the sample to test whether any one country was pivotal in the results reported in Table 3. For clarity of exposition, however, only the coefficient of interest is presented.

Chen et al. Globalization and Health 2011 7:45   doi:10.1186/1744-8603-7-45