Additional file 1 of Association between baseline and changes in high-sensitive C-reactive protein and metabolic syndrome: a nationwide cohort study and meta-analysis

Additional file 1. Table S1: Search strategy for PubMed and EMBASE for the meta-analysis; Table S2: Comparison of 4116 study participants included in final analyses and 2687 excluded due to data missing in the CHARLS; Table S3: Association of baseline hs-CRP and longitudinal hs-CRP changes with incident MetS after multiple imputations of missing data (N = 4497); Table S4: Association of baseline hs-CRP and longitudinal hs-CRP changes and incident MetS after excluding participants with diabetes, heart disease and stroke (N = 3561); Table S5: Association between baseline hs-CRP and components of MetS among age, sex and BMI subgroups (N = 4116); Table S6: Association between longitudinal hs-CRP changes and components of MetS among age, sex and BMI subgroups; Table S7: Basic information of studies included in the meta-analysis; Table S8: Quality assessment for the 10 included studies in the meta-analysis; Figure S1: Flowchart of inclusion and exclusion of study participants; Figure S2: Flowchart of literature identification for the meta-analysis; Figure S3: Association of combined baseline hs-CRP and longitudinal hs-CRP changes with incident MetS; Figure S4: Sensitivity analyses for the association between hs-CRP and incident MetS with exclusions of each study a time; Figure S5: Funnel plot for assessment of publication bias for the association between hs-CRP and MetS.