“…There was one prospective study 6 and 33 cross-sectional case–control studies. Twenty-two studies included Caucasian patients 4 , 6 , 11 , 13 , 14 , 16 , 18 , 20 , 21 , 23 – 27 , 29 , 33 – 39 , 9 included non-Caucasians 8 , 10 , 12 , 15 , 17 , 19 , 28 , 30 , 32 , and 3 did not depict ethnicity of subjects 5 , 22 , 31 . As the study population overlapped in two reports 6 , 39 , Maren’s data 39 were evaluated only in the >55-year-old subgroup analysis and not in the overall analysis.…”