Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of the 5 studies included in the meta-analysis
| First author | Year | Country | Cohort name | Participants |
Follow-up, years | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | age, years | gender | |||||
| Pang [13] | 2019 | China | China Kadoorie Biobank | 512,713 | 51 | both | 10.0 |
| Wei [14] | 2018 | China | Kailuan male cohort study | 104,825 | 51.4 | male | 8.9 |
| Lee [19] | 2016 | South Korea | Historical cohort in Bundang Jesaeng Hospital | 102 | 46.4 | both | 3.8 |
| Campbell [8] | 2016 | US | NCI cohort | 1,570,023 | 58.2 | both | − |
| Schlesinger [20] | 2013 | European countries | EPIC study | 359,525 | 52 | both | 8.6 |