Review Article
Association between Metabolic Syndrome and Osteoporosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Table 3
The methodological quality of the included studies.
| | Authors, year | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Score | Quality level |
| | Cross-sectional studiesa | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kim et al. 2013 [18] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | High | | Maghraoui et al. 2014 [19] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | High | | Lee et al. 2015 [20] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | High | | Eckstein et al. 2016 [21] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | High | | Abbasi et al. 2017 [22] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | Moderate | | Heidari et al. 2017 [23] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | High | | Chen et al. 2018 [15] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | High | | Loke et al. 2018 [13] | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | High | | Lin et al. 2018 [14] | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | Moderate |
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aThe Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) was used to assess the study quality for cross-sectional studies.
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