Table 1 Characteristic of the included studies
First author | Year | Country/continent | Follow up duration (year) | Sample size | Definition of metabolic syndrome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wataru Hirokawa | 2010 | Japan | 11.0 | 242 | JSIM |
Leon Simons | 2011 | Australia | 1.0 | 194 | AHA/NHLBI |
Alexandra Ogorodnikova | 2012 | United States | 11.6 | 1167 | ATP-III |
Mette Thomsen | 2013 | Denmark | 8.0 | 7080 | ATP-III |
Seung Hun Lee | 2018 | Korea | 10.0 | 2460 | ATP-III |
Yijie Xu | 2018 | China | 1.0 | 1167 | HIDF |
Laura Sánchez-Iñigo | 2016 | Europe | 10.0 | 426 | WHO |
Jiacheng Ding | 2023 | China | 1.9 | 46,055 | JIS |
Jacob Opio | 2022 | Australia | 9.7 | 2313 | IDF |