Table 1.

Paper selection stages and inclusion and exclusion criteria for the systematic review.

Stages	Inclusion and exclusion criteria	N
1	Papers identified in the databases
	PubMed	4869
	ScienceDirect	4560
	Total number of studies identified	9429
2	Excluded documents and papers (title and abstract screening)
	Review papers	1510
	In vitro or animal model studies	1277
	Editorials and book chapters	1752
	Studies that did not aim to evaluate the inflammation	3073
	Studies that used registered mark supplements	12
	Studies that assessed pregnancy diet and newborn's inflammation	6
	Studies in which inflammation was related to diseases other than diabetes, dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome, obesity, and heart diseases	1329
	Studies that did not assess the dietary pattern in general	178
	Duplicated	46
	Total number of papers excluded	9183
3	Papers selected	246
4	Papers excluded (full reading)
	No results regarding inflammatory markers, only of other cardiovascular risk markers	187
	Results regarding gene expression only	19
5	Total number of papers included	40