“…A total of 19 eligible studies were selected for the meta-analysis of the prevalence estimates (5, 6, 14-30) ( Table 1). Among these studies, four studies were selected for the meta-analysis of fibrotic transformation (15,19,31,32) (Table 2), five studies for the meta-analysis of leukemic transformation (15,16,29,31,33) (Table 3), and five studies for the meta-analysis of risks for patients with CALR mutation (15,16,18,23,31,33) (Table 4). The clinical features of the 21 studies published from 2013 to 2015 are summarized in Tables 1-4. A total of 3,141 patients with ET and 1,605 patients with PMF were enrolled to determine the prevalence estimates for patients with CALR mutation.…”