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. 2022 Mar 12;14(6):1207. doi: 10.3390/nu14061207

Table 2.

Summary table of primary studies included in the systemic review.

First Author,
Year, Country
Setting,
Study Population
Study Design,
Sample Selection
Study Quality Sample Size Age, Mean (SD) d or Range BMI
(kg/m2)
Men/Women
Gonzalez-Sanchez J, 2020
Spain [13]
Community
men and women
Population-based,
cross-sectional random sampling
Good 501 55.9 ± 14.2 26.5 ± 4.2 249/252
Nishiwaki M, 2020
Japan [14]
Community
healthy men
Randomized trial,
men
Fair 9 21.1 ± 0.2 22.9 ± 1.1 9/0
Hwang CL, 2020
USA [15]
Community
healthy men and women
Cross-sectional study,
population-based, consecutive
Good 49 23.3 ± 1 23.4 ± 0.7 25/24
Moon J, 2018
South Korea [16]
Community
men and women
Cross-sectional study,
population-based, consecutive
Fair 1004 53 ± 10 25 ± 3 721/283
Sluyter JD, 2017
New Zeland [32]
Community
men and women
Cross sectional study,
population-based; randomized
Good 4798 62.5 ± 7.8 30.1 ± 5.3 2778/2020
Fu S, 2017
China [33]
Community
men and women
Cross-sectional
population-based, cluster sampling
Good 2624 54 (18 to 96) 25.2 (23.0–27.4) 1358/1266
Nishiwaki M, 2017
Japan [34]
Community
healthy men
Randomized trial,
men
Fair 11 21.1 ± 0.2 21.5 ± 0.7 11/0
O’Neill D, 2017
UK [35]
Community
men and women
Cohort Study,
consecutive
Good 3869 65 ± 5.7 26.2 ± 4.2 2852/1017
Uemura H, 2015
Japan [36]
Community
men
Cohort study prospective,
consecutive
Good 647 48.8 ± 8.6 24.5 ± 3.4 647/0
Kim MK, 2014
South Korea [37]
Community,
men and women
Cohort Study
multistage cluster sampling
Good 5539 60.5 ± 10.1 24.0 ± 3.1 2121/3418
Sasaki S, 2013
Japan [38]
Community, men and women Cross-sectional study,
population-based, consecutive
Fair 3893 47.2 ± 7.0 22.7 ± 3.1 3081/812
Karatzi K, 2013
Greece [39]
Community
healty men
Cross-over study,
randomized; single–blind
Fair 17 28.4 ± 5.2 24.3 ± 2.4 17/0
Mitani S, 2012
Japan [40]
Healthy workers, men and women Cohort Study,
consecutive
Fair 528 47.9 ± 8.1 22.5 ± 2.9 270/258