Table 3.

Relevant compounds from the meta-analysis results considering only the vote-counting results. The compounds shown are found in at least two different cohorts. Compounds in bold have a vote count of at least 2 for the upregulated compounds and −2 for the downregulated compounds.

Common Name	No. of Cohorts	Behavior (Up-Down-Equal)	Vote-Counting	N	Reference
CRC and Advanced Adenoma vs. Control
N1,N12-Diacetylspermine	3	3–0–0	3	928	[24,25] ɫ
D-Glucose	2	2–0–0	2	696	[24] ɫ
L-Kynurenine	2	2–0–0	2	696	[24] ɫ
L-Proline	2	2–0–0	2	696	[24] ɫ
Creatinine	2	0–2–0	−2	452	[35,36]
Phenol	2	0–2–0	−2	294	[29,35]
Putrescine	3	2–0–1	2	900	[24,35] ɫ
Hippuric acid	4	0–3–1	−3	1148	[24,35,36] ɫ
Indole-3-acetic acid	3	0–2–1	−2	900	[24,35] ɫ
Citric acid	5	1–3–1	−2	1271	[24,35,36,43] ɫ
P-Cresol	2	1–1–0	1	417	[35,43]
Tetradecenoyl carnitine (C14:1)	2	1–0–1	1	696	[24] ɫ
2-Aminohexanedioic acid	2	0–1–1	−1	696	[24] ɫ
3-(3-Hydroxyohenyl)-3-hydroxypropanoic acid	2	0–1–1	−1	696	[24] ɫ
Aspartic acid	2	0–1–1	−1	696	[24] ɫ
3-Hidroxybutyric acid	2	1–1–0	0	696	[24] ɫ
Butyric acid	2	1–1–0	0	696	[24] ɫ
Hydroxyproline	2	1–1–0	0	696	[24] ɫ
L-Alanine	2	1–1–0	0	452	[35,36]
L-Dopa	2	1–1–0	0	696	[24] ɫ
L-Tryptophan	2	1–1–0	0	327	[35,43]
Urea	2	1–1–0	0	452	[35,36]
CRC Stage vs. Control
Hippuric acid	2	1–1–0	0	248	[37,44]
Pre-surgery vs. Post-surgery
Salicyluric acid	2	0–2–0	−2	258	[43,44]
Asparagine	2	1–1–0	0	258	[43,44]
Citrate	2	1–1–0	0	258	[43,44]
Tyrosine	2	1–1–0	0	246	[43,44]

^ɫ Reference [24] has two cohorts for this is included twice.