“…After duplicate removal, 60 records were excluded, and 84 studies were screened on the basis of titles and abstracts. From 21 studies selected for full‐text screening, 14 studies were excluded because of different types of supplement (Cicero et al, ; Rahimi et al, ; Kocher et al, ; Tariq et al, ), patients without a diagnosis of MetS (Campos‐Cervantes et al, ; Chuengsamarn et al, ; Esmaily et al, ; Ismail et al, ; Panahi, et al, ; Panahi, et al, ), lack of desired variables (Campos‐Cervantes et al, ), and reporting duplicate data (A. Mohammadi et al, ). Seven studies fulfilled inclusion criteria for quantitative data synthesis.…”