Table 2.

List of included studies with the number of patients involved and the type of treatment (PCI: percutaneous coronary angioplasty; CABG: coronary artery bypass graft; MT: medical therapy; ND: not reported data).

Study ID	Number of patients	Treatment
Aguilar et al., 2006 [18]	3319	ND
Arroyo-Espliguero et al., 2009 [19]	790	PCI, MT
Avanzas et al., 2005 [20]	297	PCI, MT
Bhatt et al., 2010 [21]	45227	ND
Borges et al., 2010, CABG [22]	136	CABG
Borges et al., 2010, MT [22]	110	MT
Borges et al., 2010, PCI [22]	146	PCI
Breeman et al., 2006 [23]	2928	PCI, MT, CABG
Carpeggiani et al., 2011 [24]	1442	ND
Chen et al., 2007 [25]	468	ND
Dart et al., 2007 [26]	7016	ND
Dibra et al., 2003 [27]	1152	CABG, MT
Eisen et al., 2008 [28]	361	ND
Eldrup et al., 2012 [29]	1090	PCI, MT, CABG
Chocron et al., 2008 [30]	2489	ND
Gehi et al., 2008 [31]	929	PCI, MT, CABG
Georgiadou et al., 2010 [32]	101	ND
Glaser et al., 2006 [33]	1457	MT
Harutyunyan et al., 2011 [34]	4372	ND
Hjemdahl et al., 2006 [35]	807	ND
Hueb et al., 2010 [36]	611	MT
Jeremias et al., 2008 [37]	7592	PCI, MT, CABG
Johansen et al., 2006 [38]	507	PCI, MT, CABG
Kaneko et al., 2013 [39]	747	PCI
Ku et al., 2011 [40]	981	ND
Leu et al., 2004 [41]	150	PCI, MT, CABG
Lopes et al., 2008 [42]	825	ND
Máchal et al., 2014 [43]	150	PCI, MT, CABG
Makino et al., 2010 [44]	626	ND
Momiyama et al., 2009 [45]	373	PCI, MT
Muzzarelli and Pfisterer, 2006 [46]	253	PCI, MT, CABG
Papa et al., 2008 [47]	422	NF
Park et al., 2014 [48]	203	PCI, MT, CABG
Pedersen et al., 2010 [49]	1025	PCI, MT, CABG
Povsic et al., 2015 [50]	1908	MT
Roman et al., 2010 [51]	178	PCI, MT, CABG
Rubulis et al., 2010 [52]	187	ND
Sabatine et al., 2007 [53]	3766	ND
Schnabel  et al., 2010 [54]	1781	ND
Sinning et al., 2006 [55]	1806	ND
Cihan et al., 2010 [56]	2449	PCI, MT, CABG
Van Melle et al., 2010 [57]	839	PCI, MT
Wakabayashi et al., 2010 [58]	1944	PCI, MT, CABG
Zebrack et al., 2002 [57]	599	ND