“…excluded articles). Twelve studies enrolling 491 participants were finally selected (Camargo et al., ; Cirano et al., ; da Cruz et al., ; Dag, Firat, Arikan, Kadiroglu, & Kaplan, ; Dogan et al., ; Kara, Cifcibasi, Karsidag, & Cintan, ; Kardesler, Buduneli, Cetinkalp, & Kinane, ; Mirnic et al., ; Navarro‐Sanchez, Faria‐Almeida, & Bascones‐Martinez, ; Shen, Yin, & Shu, ; Silva‐Boghossian, Orrico, Goncalves, Correa, & Colombo, ; Wei, Chang, Pan, Yu, & Zhao, ) and fifteen data sets were included in the analyses because three studies had groups of patients with DM at different levels of glycaemic control (Dag et al., ; Kardesler et al., ; Mirnic et al., ).…”