Study | Country | Design | Characteristics of the participants | Number of participants | Definition of MetS | Follow-up period years | Diagnosis of gastric cancer | Number of gastric cancer cases | Incidence reported | Variables adjusted | NOS |
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Russo [11] | Italy | PC | Community based population over 40 years | 16,677 | NCEP-ATP III | 1999–2005 | Local Cancer Registry | 29 | M,F,T | Age, gender | 7 |
Inoue [12] | Japan | PC | Community based population | 27,724 | NCEP-ATP III and IDF | 1990–2004 | National cancer registries | 233 | M,F | Age, gender, study area, smoking status, alcohol intake, daily total physical activity level, and TC | 9 |
Osaki [13] | Japan | RC | General health examinees | 38,832 | NCEP-ATP III and IDF | 1992–2007 | Tottori prefectural cancer registry | 393 | M,F | Age, gender, smoking status, and alcohol intake | 9 |
Lindkvist [19] | Norway, Austria and Sweden | PC | Community based population | 578,700 | NCEP-ATP III | 1972–2005 | National cancer registries | 1210 | M,F | Age, gender, study cohort, smoking | 8 |
van Kruijsdijk [15] | the Netherlands | PC | Patients with vascular diseases | 6172 | NCEP-ATP III | 1996–2011 | National cancer registries | 17 | M,F,T | Age, gender, smoking status, and alcohol intake | 7 |
Lin [16] | Norway | PC | Community based population | 192,903 | NCEP-ATP III | 1994–2008 | National cancer registries | 373 | M,F,T | Age, gender, BMI, education, smoking status, and family cancer history | 9 |
Ko [17] | Korea | RC | Community based population | 99,565 | NCEP-ATP III | 2002–2013 | Local Cancer Registry | 1061 | M,F | Age, gender, smoking status, alcohol intake, and exercise | 9 |
Yoo [18] | Korea | PC | National sample cohort for health check-up | 7,785,098 | NCEP-ATP III | 2009–2016 | National cancer registries | 33,929 | T | Age, gender, smoking, alcohol consumption, exercise, family histories (HTN, DM, CVD, cancers), hemoglobin, SCr, TC, LDL-C, and ALT | 9 |