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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of all included studies in the meta-analysis

From: Patients with Parkinson’s disease predict a lower incidence of colorectal cancer

Author

Year

Country

Study design

N (case)

N (control)

subsite

SQ

adjustment

Guttman [28]

2003

Canada

retrospective cohort

15,304 PD

30,608

colon

6

age, sex

OLsen [21]

2005

Denmark

retrospective cohort

14,088 PD

NR

colon +rectum

6

age, sex

Powers [29]

2005

USA

Case-control

352 PD

484

colorectal

6

age, ethnicity, education, smoking

Driver [30]

2007

USA

prospective cohort

487 PD

487

colorectal

6

age

Fois [22]

2009

UK

retrospective cohort

4355 PD

574,860

colon +rectum

7

age, sex, year of first hospital admission, region

Becker [23]

2010

UK

retrospective cohort

2993 PD

3003

colorectal

6

age, sex, smoking, body mass index,

Lo [31]

2010

USA

retrospective cohort

692 PD

761

colorectal

7

age, sex, ethnicity, education (years), annual income, smoking, alcohol consumption, body mass index

Sun [14]

2011

Taiwan, China

retrospective cohort

4957 PD

19,828

colorectal

6

age, sex

Rugbjerg [24]

2012

Denmark

retrospective cohort

20,343 PD

32,360

colorectal

7

age, sex, calendar year

Ong [25]

2014

UK

retrospective cohort

219,194 PD

9,015,614

colon +rectum

8

age, sex, calendar year, region of residence, quintile of patients

Wirdefeldt [26]

2014

Sweden

retrospective cohort

11,786 PD

58,930

colon +rectum

7

sex, birth year

Lin [15]

2015

Taiwan, China

retrospective cohort

62,023 PD

124,046

colorectal

8

age, sex

Peretz [34]

2016

Israel

retrospective cohort

7125 PD

NR

colon +rectum

7

age, sex, chronological year

Boursi [27]

2016

UK

Case-control

22,093 cancer

85,833

colorectal

6

Obesity, diabetes, smoking, alcohol consumption, NSAIDs use, hormone replacement therapy, screening colonoscopy

Freedman(1) [33]

2016

USA

Case-control

836,947 cancer

142,869

colon +rectum

5

age, sex, selection year

Freedman(2) [32]

2016

Asia

Case-control

20,267 cancer

5558

colon

5

age, sex, selection year

Park [35]

2019

Korea

retrospective cohort

52,009 PD

260,045

colorectal

8

age, sex, hypertension, DM, hyperlipidemia

  1. Notes: Study quality was judged based on the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale,
  2. Abbreviations: N number of studies, NR not reported, SQ score of study quality, RR relative risk, CI confidence intervals