Table 1 Baseline Characteristics of Included Studies in the Meta-analysis
Studies | Author | Year | Country | Follow up (year) | Sex (1-women, 2-men, 3-both) | Patients, n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Silbernagel, G. | 2013 | Germany | 7.3 | 3 | 3245 |
2 | Lin, G. M. | 2013 | Taiwan | 3.2 | 3 | 1054 |
3 | Hu, S. L. | 2012 | Taiwan | 10 | 3 | 1093 |
4 | Wen, C. P. | 2010 | Taiwan | 8.5 | 3 | 230,508 |
5 | Spoon, D. B. | 2010 | USA | 2 | 3 | 1916 |
6 | Strasak, A. M. | 2008 | Austria | 21 | 1 | 28,613 |
7 | Meisinger, C. | 2008 | Germany | 11.7 | 2 | 3604 |
8 | Niskanen, L. K. | 2004 | Finland | 11.9 | 2 | 1423 |
9 | Dawson, J. | 2013 | Scotland | 10 | 1 and 2 | 6984 |
10 | Ford, E. S. | 2011 | USA | 14 | 3 | 13,802 |
11 | Chen, J. H. | 2009 | Taiwan | 8.2 | 1 and 2 | 90,393 |
12 | Strasak, A. | 2008 | Austria | 13.6 | 2 | 83,638 |
13 | Tomita, M. | 2000 | Japan | 5.4 | 2 | 49,413 |
14 | Fang, J. | 2000 | USA | 16.4 | 1 and 2 | 5926 |
15 | Tseng,W | 2018 | Taiwan | 5.8 | 3 | 127,771 |
16 | Lopez-Pineda, A. | 2018 | Spain | 3 | 3 | 1119 |
17 | Tscharre, M. | 2018 | Austria | 5.5 | 3 | 1215 |
18 | Hu, W. S. | 2017 | china | 8.8 | 3 | 381,963 |
19 | Zhang, W. | 2016 | Japan | 23 | 1 and 2 | 36,313 |
20 | Nossent, J. | 2016 | Australia | 15 | 3 | 3475 |
21 | Li, Q. | 2016 | china | 3.9 | 3 | 1799 |
22 | Kamei, K. | 2016 | Japan | 8 | 1 and 2 | 3487 |
23 | Zhu, L. | 2015 | china | 12 | 3 | 588 |
24 | Zalawadiya, S. K. | 2015 | USA | 14.5 | 3 | 11,009 |
25 | Wu, C. Y. | 2015 | Taiwan | 5 | 1 and 2 | 77,541 |
26 | Wang, J. | 2015 | china | 6 | 3 | 2585 |
27 | Von Lueder, T. G. | 2015 | Norway | 2.7 | 3 | 12,677 |
28 | Shimizu, T. | 2015 | Japan | 1.67 | 3 | 424 |
29 | Mayer, F. J | 2015 | Austria | 6.3 | 3 | 959 |
30 | Kleber, M. E. | 2015 | Germany | 10 | 3 | 3315 |
31 | Beberashvili, I. | 2015 | Israel | 2 | 3 | 261 |
32 | Xia, X. | 2014 | China | 2.1 | 3 | 985 |