“…for meta-regression < 0.001). Asian studies[59, 86,112,158,174] showed an average stronger positive association than studies from Europe[46,47,49,63, 66, 72, 79, 88, 91, 96, 97,115,120,125,143,153,168,169,171,172], North America[44,51,56,57, 75, 80, 81, 98,100,101,136,152,159,167,171,178], and Australia and New Zealand[68,135] …”