Fig. 3.

Forest plot of ‘Unhealthy/Western’ dietary pattern and risk of metabolic syndrome for the highest category compared with the lowest. The study-specific OR and 95 % CI are represented by the black diamond and the horizontal line, respectively; the area of the grey square is proportional to the specific-study weight to the overall meta-analysis. The centre of the open diamond/vertical dashed line represents the pooled OR and the width of the open diamond represents the pooled 95 % CI