Table 3. Summary characteristics of included systematic reviews (SR) on processed meat and coronary heart disease.
| First author | Databases searched | No. studies (case-control/cohort) |
No. participants Cases/controls or cohort size |
Study design | Exposure | Subgroup analyses | Authors’ conclusion | Funding and conflict of interest stateda |
AMSTAR scoreb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micha (2010) | Medline, Embase, Agris, AMED, HMIC, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library, Web of Knowledge, CABI, CINAHL, conference abstracts (ZETOCH) | 5 (1/4) | 23889/218380 | SR and meta-analysis | Processed meat | - | (+) | No | 7 |
a Both within the SR and the included studies
b Maximum AMSTAR score is 11 for meta-analysis and 9 for reviews.
(+) association; (x) no association; (o) no conclusion. Abbreviations: NR: not reported; SR: systematic review