Table 5.

Search strategy with MeSH terms

Search	Search terms	Number of hits PubMed	Number of hits Ebscohost	Number of hits Cochrane Database	Number of hits Web of Science
#1	metabolic syndrome OR syndrome X OR insulin resistance syndrome	187,904	27,587	10,928	128,787
#2	Hypertension OR high blood pressure	533723	102,771	89,556	107.083
#3	Type 2 diabetes mellitus OR type 2 diabetes OR diabetes Mellitus OR non-insulin dependent diabetes OR adult onset diabetes	435357	92,546	38,353	377,811
#4	Human Immunodeficiency Virus OR Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Virus OR AIDS Virus OR HIV Seronegativities OR Seronegativity, HIV OR HIV Seropositivities OR Seropositivity, HIV	329085	139,326	8285	268,598
#5	#1 OR #2 OR #3 AND #4	8693	137,326	97,517	134,466
#6	African filter((((Angola OR Benin OR Botswana OR “Burkina Faso” OR Burundi OR Cameroon OR “Cape Verde” OR “Central African Republic” OR Chad OR Comoros OR Congo OR “Democratic Republic of Congo” OR Djibouti OR “Equatorial Guinea” OR Eritrea OR Ethiopia OR Gabon OR Gambia OR Ghana OR Guinea OR “Guinea Bissau” OR “Ivory Coast” OR “Cote d’Ivoire” OR Kenya OR Lesotho OR Liberia OR Madagascar OR Malawi OR Mali OR Mauritania OR Mauritius OR Mozambique OR Namibia OR Niger OR Nigeria OR Principe OR Reunion OR Rwanda OR “Sao Tome” OR Senegal OR Seychelles OR “Sierra Leone” OR Somalia OR “South Africa” OR Sudan OR Swaziland OR Tanzania OR Togo OR Uganda OR “Western Sahara” OR Zambia OR Zimbabwe OR “Central Africa” OR “Central African” OR “West Africa” OR “West African” OR “Western Africa” OR “Western African” OR “East Africa” OR “East African” OR “Eastern Africa” OR “Eastern African” OR “South African” OR “Southern Africa” OR “Southern African” OR “sub Saharan Africa” OR “sub Saharan African” OR “sub Saharan Africa” OR “sub Saharan African” NOT “guinea pig” NOT “guinea pigs” NOT “aspergillus niger” ))))	310426	354,204	15,628	467,826
#7	# 5 AND # 6 Limits: 01/01/1990 to 28/02/2017 in English and French on humans	632	7960	1825	160
Total = 125	Title screening	98	25	0	2