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Table 1 Details of the selected studies and baseline characteristics of the participants

From: Circulating chemerin levels in metabolic-associated fatty liver disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Authors

Year

Country

Sample size

Study design

Method of chemerin measurement

Sample

Diagnostic methods of MAFLD

Kukla et al.

2010

Poland

61

Case-control

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Serum

Liver biopsy

Sell et al.

2010

France

44

Cross-sectional

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Plasma

Liver biopsy

Yilmaz et al.

2011

Turkey

174

Case-control

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Serum

Liver biopsy

Polyzos et al.

2014

Greece

59

Cross-sectional

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Serum

Liver biopsy

Ye et al.

2014

China

903

Cross-sectional

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Serum

Ultrasound

Zhuang et al.

2015

China

45

Cross-sectional

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Serum

Ultrasound

Zwolak et al.

2016

Poland

45

Cross-sectional

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Serum

Liver biopsy

Bekaert et al.

2016

Belgium

90

Cross-sectional

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Serum

Liver biopsy

Pohl et al.

2016

Germany

56

Cross-sectional

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Serum

Ultrasound

Lai et al.

2017

China

89

Case-control

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Serum

Liver biopsy or Ultrasound

Kajor et al.

2017

Poland

56

Cross-sectional

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Serum

Liver biopsy

Zhang et al.

2018

China

300

Cross-sectional

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Serum

Liver biopsy

Hang et al.

2019

China

310

Case-control

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Serum

Liver biopsy or Ultrasound

Sahar et al.

2019

Egypt

45

Case-control

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Serum

Ultrasound

Mohamed et al.

2021

Egypt

90

Case-control

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Serum

Ultrasound

Gao et al.

2021

China

131

Case-control

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Serum

Liver biopsy or Ultrasound

Xing et al.

2021

China

82

Case-control

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

Serum

Ultrasound

  1. MAFLD metabolic-associated fatty liver disease