“…The study selection process is detailed in Figure 1 . Through a comprehensive retrieval and evaluation, 45 studies from 44 papers with 20,866 cases and 21,298 controls met the inclusion criteria to assess the association between the CETP TaqIB polymorphism and the composite ischemic CVD [ 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 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 ]. The selected study characteristics and data are listed in Table 1 .…”