Table-II.

Characteristics of included patients in meta-analysis.

Authors	Sample(size/female)		Age		BMI
	W-3	Control	W-3	Control	W-3	Control
Spadaro et al.	18/7	18/10	50.16±12.9	51.3±9.8	30.1±4.7	31.0±3.4
Zhu et al.	66/19	68/18	45.00± 10.91	44.03± 11.30	26.37±3.12	25.96 ± 2.70
SOFI et al.	6/2	5/0	55 (30–41)	54 (42–70)	29.3±4.1	29.3±3.9
Argo et al.	17/10	17/11	46.4±12.1	47.2±12	33.3±8.0	31.6±6.7
Boyraz et al.	56/29	52/24	13.8±3.8	13.3±3.5	29.7±4.8	27.2±3.3
Li et al.	39/3	39/5	52.6±6.6	50.4±7.2	28.0±1.4	27.2±1.3
Dasarathy et al.	18/12	19/17	51.5±6.9	49.8±12.1	34.8±4.6	35.7±7.0
McCormick et al.	51/26	52/17	48.6±11.1	54.0±9.6	34.3±5.8	32.0±4.3
Chen et al.	30/6	16/10	46.5	45
V. Nobili et al.	40/23	20/12	11(8-14)	13(9-17)	26.6 (21.7-31.5)	26.1(21-31.2)
Qin et al.	36/10	34/9	46.0±10.68	44.3±10.90	26.4±3.9	26.0±2.8
Janczyk et al.	37/5	39/6	13.2 (11.2-15.9)	12.8 (10.9-14.9)	28.6 (26.3-32.1)	28.86 (25.6-32.0)
Nogueira et al.	27/23	23/18	52.5 ± 7.2	53.9 ± 6.8	31.1 ± 4.6	30.3 ± 4.4

BMI: body mass index, Data are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation, or median and interquartile range (IQR).