“…As a result, 53 articles were excluded as they failed to meet eligibility criteria, due to not investigating IL‐1B 31 polymorphism, or not case–control study. Of the remaining 38 publications, three were eliminated, due to reporting duplicate data 17, 18, 19. Ultimately, 37 studies from 35 publications 6, 10, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 including 6108 cases and 8980 controls were included in the meta‐analysis (Fig.…”