“…The sponsor had no influence over the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; or preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript. Meta-analysis of diabetes and heart failure Appendix 7: Study confounders considered when the relationship between diabetes mellitus and new-onset heart failure was examined Age, (gender), income, education, marital status, duration of DM, stroke, CHD, AF, renal dialysis or transplantation Wandell (2018) 36 Age, (gender), obesity, socio-demography, HT, valvular disease, cardiomyopathy, COPD, OSA Wellings (2018) The confounder in parentheses indicates that the risk measure was adjusted for this confounder although the adjustment was not stated.…”