Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria of this review according to the CoCoPop method.

	Inclusion Criteria	Exclusion Criteria
Condition	CVD risk factors (i.e., diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, obesity, metabolic syndrome, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease)	CVD risk
Context	Studies researching only white meat consumption alone or comparing to other foods	Studies assessing white meat consumption as a part of different diets (i.e., Mediterranean, DASH, vegetarian diet). Studies evaluating different ingredients of white meat (i.e., heme iron, animal protein).
Population	General healthy adult population (>18 years old) free of CVD or CVD risk factors	Age: <18 years old Patients with CVD or CVD risk factors
Study type	Only prospective cohort studies (or studies analyzed prospectively)	Other types of epidemiological studies (i.e., case-control, cross-sectional, or experimental) or prospective cohorts studied with such analyses (i.e., case-cohort, retrospective analysis) Reviews Meta-analyses Position papers, editorials
Time-limit	From 2010 up to 2022 (recent studies)	Articles published before 2010
Language restriction	Only articles published in English	Articles published in other languages

Abbreviations: CVD: cardiovascular disease.