“…The sixteen studies on TC (four cohort, five cross-sectional and seven case-control studies) were published between 1990 and 2013 (Tables 1 and 2) and involved a total of 21 809 CRN cases (4,9,10,(19)(20)(21)(22)25,28,29,34,36,38,39,42,43) . Three studies were conducted in the USA (20,38,39) , one in Sweden (42) , three in Korea (9,10,22) , five in Japan (25,28,29,36,43) , one in Finland (21) , one in Germany (19) and two in European countries (4,24) (Tables 1 and 2). A random-effects model was considered for a summary RR as there was evidence of heterogeneity for the included sixteen studies (Q = 45·28, P value for heterogeneity = 0·00001, I 2 = 65 %).…”