Table 1 Characteristics of included studies-mortality

Sierink et al. [38]

Re

70.4

71.7

43.91 (19.67)^a

43.63 (18.61)^a

152

152

18^c

18^c

13.2^‡

13.2^‡

1.00

Huber-Wagner et al. [19]

Re

73.0

73.2

45.2 (19.8)^a

44.6 (20.4)^a

9233

7486

29.7^a

27.7^a

17.4^‡

21.4^‡

<0.001

Weninger et al. [39]

Re

72.4

73.5

43.5 (17.2)^a

40.7 (18.2)^a

185

185

26.6^a

27.6^a

16.8^‡

16.2^‡

n.s.

Wurmb et al. [20]

Re

75

77

38 (3-87)^b

38 (2-82)^b

163

155

27^c

24^c

8.5^‡

9.0^‡

NA

Hutter et al. [21]

Re

75

74

43.9 (19.3)^a

43.5 (20.7)^a

608

313

28.3^a

26.4^a

7.9^‡

23.3^‡

<0.001

Wada et al. [23]

Re

65

65

40 (26-61)^c

42 (23-64)^c

132

20

34^c

41^c

18.1^‡

80^‡

<0.001

Yeguiayan et al. [41]

Pro

76.1

73.2

NA

NA

1696

254

NA

NA

16.3^‡

22^‡

0.02

Kimura et al. [40]

Re

71

70

48 (47-49)^d

53 (52-53)^d

1858

3350

26^a

23^a

24^‡

28^‡

<0.001

Mao et al. [43]

Re

75

72

49.67 (17.17)^a

45.24 (15.51)^a

48

75

28^a

25^a

22.9^‡

22.7^‡

0.974

Bi et al. [42]

Re

NA

NA

NA

NA

58

87

NA

NA

20.7^‡

39.1^‡

<0.05