“…Finally, a total of 17 studies including 8,225 cases were involved in our analysis [11,12,13,14,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33]. Among the chosen studies, 4 were cohort studies [21,22,23,26] and 13 were case-control ones [11,12,13,14,24,25,27,28,29,30,31,32,33]. Seven studies were conducted on Asian people [11,12,14,21,23,24,26], while the remaining 10 were performed among Caucasian people [13,22,25,27,28,29,30,31,32,33].…”