“…In all, 24 articles 9 , 10 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 with a total of 3928 patients with CKD were eventually identified according to the search strategy and the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Characteristics and other information extracted from each publication are summarized in Table 1 .…”