“…After carefully reviewing the full texts, we performed a secondary screening and eliminated 257 articles due to other disease (n = 231), insufficient information (n = 3), other genes and VDR gene polymorphisms (n = 23). A total of 30 studies covering 81 studies were retained for this meta-analysis (Luedecking-Zimmer et al, 2003;Kim et al, 2005;Gezen-Ak et al, 2007Lehmann et al, 2011;Han et al, 2012;Khorram Khorshid et al, 2013;Liu et al, 2013;Lv et al, 2013;Török et al, 2013;Petersen et al, 2014;Gatto et al, 2015;Łaczmański et al, 2015;Zhou et al, 2015;Kang et al, 2016;Mohammadzadeh and Pazhouhesh, 2016;Mun et al, 2016;Meamar et al, 2017;Tanaka et al, 2017;Oliveira et al, 2018;Hu et al, 2020;Agliardi et al, 2021;Arévalo et al, 2021;Agúndez et al, 2022;Dimitrakis et al, 2022a,b;Kamyshna et al, 2022;Redenšek et al, 2022;Zhang et al, 2022).…”