“…The main outcome in most of the studies was all-cause and CVD mortality, followed by incident MACE, AF, HF, stroke, and additional CV outcomes. A total of six articles analyzed metabolites in serum [25,[29][30][31][32]36] and the rest in plasma. In 13 articles blood sample was collected in fasting [21,24,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32]36,[38][39][40] and in five articles in non-fasting conditions [18,22,25,41,42], while in two articles the fasting status was not reported [19,20] and in one article participants provided blood samples in either fasting or non-fasting conditions [23].…”