Fig. 6From: Association between the expression of vascular endothelial growth factors and metabolic syndrome or its components: a systematic review and meta-analysisSubgroup meta-analysis of VEGF-A or VEGF-B expression in hyperglycemia by VEGF protein. Hyperglycemia was defined as a fasting blood glucose concentration over 100 mg/dl (> 5.6 mmol/L). VEGF-B was analyzed in Wu 2017. All other studies analyzed VEGF-ABack to article page