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Table 1 Characteristics of included studies

From: Intracranial artery calcification as an independent predictor of ischemic stroke: a systematic review and a meta-analysis

Trial

Region

Cases

Trial design

Age (years)

Male (%)

Outcome variables

aOR (95% CI)

Risk of bias

Douglas 2003

USA

322

Cohort study

73

53

OC

0.96 (0.1-8.97)

Moderate

Chen 2007

CHINA

357

Case-control study

65.9

54.1

OC

3.17 (1.25-8.04)

Moderate

Bugnicourt 2009

France

511

Case-control study

65.7

56.8

OC

1.89 (1.13-3.14)

Moderate

POWER 2011

UK

529

Cohort study

59

61

OC & MO

OC: 1.48 (1-2.23)

MO: 2.17 (1.22–3.87)

Low

Koton 2012

Israel

1049

Cohort study

70

59

MO

Mild: 1.6 (0.6–4.3)

Severe: 1.0 (0.4–3.0)

Moderate

Lee 2014

Korea

1017

Cohort study

67.7

56.7

RE & MO

Mild:

RE: 1.49 (.83-2.67)

MO: 0.51 (.19-1.37)

Severe:

RE: 2.00 (1.07-3.71)

MO: 0.54 (.19-1.53)

Moderate

Bos2014

Europe

2323

Cohort study

69.5

47.8

OC

1.39 (0.98-1.99)

Moderate

Kao 2015

Netherlands

1872

Case-control study

NA

53.7

OC

1.02 (0.98, 1.07)

Low

Quiney 2017

USA

99

Case-control study

55

58.6

OC

2.2(1.2-3.9)

Moderate

Zhang 2019

China

125

Case-control study

NA

NA

OC

1.98 (1.45 ~ 2.69)

Low

Magdiˇ 2020

Slovenia

448

Case-control study

76

47.3

RE & MO

RE: 3.13 (1.35-7.20)

MO: 1.22 (0.93-1.56)

Moderate

Wu 2020

China

694

Cohort study

71.6

50.3

RE & MO

RE: 1.23 (0.57, 2.66)

MO: 3.17 (0.42-23.79)

Low

  1. Abbreviations: USA United States of America, NA not available, OC occurrence, RE recurrence, MO mortality, aOR adjusted odds ratio, CI confidence intervals