“…ORs (95% CI) assessing the association between periodontitis and CKD were considered (Figure ). Eight studies (Fisher & Taylor, ; Fisher, Taylor, Papapanou, Rahman, & Debanne, ; Fisher, Taylor, West, & McCarthy, ; Fisher, Taylor, Shelton, et al., ; Ioannidou, Hall, Swede, & Himmelfarb, ; Ioannidou & Swede, ; Ioannidou, Swede, & Dongari‐Bagtzoglou, ; Salimi, Ng, Seliger, & Parsa, ) were based on the NHANES III cohort, two studies on the D‐ARIC study (Grubbs et al., ; Kshirsagar et al., ), and two on Yokogoshi study (Yoshihara et al., , ). Therefore, only the study presenting the largest population sample in each subanalysis was pooled in this meta‐analysis.…”