BMI	Body mass index
BP	Blood pressure
CI	Confidence interval
FBG	Fasting blood glucose
GRADE	Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation
HbA1c	Hemoglobin A1C
HDL-C	High-density lipoprotein cholesterol
HMG-CoA	β-hydroxy-β-methylglutaryl-CoA
I2	I-squared statistic
LDL-C	Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol
MetS	Metabolic syndrome
PRISMA	Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
RCTs	Randomized controlled trials
ROB2	Risk of Bias 2 Tool
SBP	Systolic blood pressure
SD	Standard deviation
SE	Standard error
VLDL	Very-low-density lipoprotein
WMD	Weighted mean difference