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Table 1 Characteristics of included studies in meta-analysis

From: Clinicopathological and prognostic significance of platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) in gastric cancer: an updated meta-analysis

Author

Year

Country

Ethnicity

Treatment

Follow-up (month)

Cut-off

Study period

Patients (n)

Survival analysis

NOS score

Mehmet Aliustaoglu

2010

Turkey

Caucasian

Chemotherapy

NA

160

2004–2008

168

OS

7

Deshen Wang

2012

China

Asian

Surgery

39.9 (23.77–57.43)

150/300

2006–2009

324

OS/DFS

8

Suee Lee

2013

Korea

Asian

Chemotherapy

14.9 (1–47.9)

160

2007–2010

174

OS

7

Qing Wang

2014

China

Asian

Mixed

NA

160

2006–2014

439

OS

7

Dawei Yuan

2014

China

Asian

Surgery

NA

150

2009–2012

280

OS/DFS

7

Nan Jiang

2014

China

Asian

Surgery

42 (1–103)

184

2005–2007

377

OS

8

Lian Lian

2015

China

Asian

Surgery

60

208

2007–2010

162

OS/DFS

8

Fen Wang

2015

China

Asian

Chemotherapy

40

235

2010–2011

120

NA

6

KaiYu Sun

2015

China

Asian

Surgery

55.75 (0.8–186)

140

1998–2008

632

OS

8

Xuechao Liu

2015

China

Asian

Surgery

NA

180

2015–2010

455

OS

7

Meral Gunaldi

2015

Turkey

Caucasian

Mixed

11.5

160

NA

245

OS

6

M. Messager

2015

UK

Caucasian

Surgery

31.8 (4–131)

192

2001–2014

153

OS/DFS

8

Qiwen Deng

2015

China

Asian

Surgery

24 (3–60)

132

2007–2009

389

OS/DFS

8

Jun-Te Hsu

2015

China

Asian

Surgery

30

132

2005–2011

1030

OS

8

Eun Young Kim

2015

Korea

Asian

Surgery

NA

126

2000–2009

1986

OS/DFS

7

Aldemir(1)

2015

Turkey

Caucasian

Surgery

NA

170

2006–2013

53

OS

7

Aldemir(2)

2015

Turkey

Caucasian

Chemotherapy

NA

170

2006–2013

50

OS

7

Wenyang Pang

2016

China

Asian

Surgery

NA

155.67

2009–2011

492

NA

6

Xin Zhou

2016

China

Asian

Surgery

NA

167

2006–2008

451

OS

7

Jin Wang

2016

China

Asian

Chemotherapy

NA

201.6

2005–2013

273

OS

7

Neng Lou

2017

China

Asian

Surgery

NA

106

2006–2014

312

NA

6

Weipeng Gong

2017

China

Asian

Surgery

22 (8–67)

161

2007–2015

91

OS

8

Kenichi Inaoka

2017

Japan

Asian

Surgery

NA

71

1999–2016

312

NA

6

Masayuki Urabe

2017

Japan

Asian

Surgery

63.3

NA

1999–2014

1363

OS/DFS

8

Shubin Song

2017

China

Asian

Surgery

37 (3–108)

139.12

2007–2011

1990

OS

8

Fan Feng(1)

2017

China

Asian

Surgery

24.9 (1–75)

130.675

2008–2015

1621

OS

8

Fan Feng(2)

2017

China

Asian

Surgery

24.9 (1–75)

130.675

2008–2015

1622

OS

8

Kenji Mima Tsu

2017

Japan

Asian

Surgery

NA

200

2006–2016

33

OS

7

Kang Wang

2017

China

Asian

Surgery

45 (1–185)

120

1994–2005

444

OS

8

Harry E. Fuentes

2017

USA

Caucasian

Mixed

21.3 (9.5–42.6)

260

2010–2015

112

OS

7

Mikito Mori

2018

Japan

Asian

Surgery

37 (5–108)

149.4

2006–2017

100

NA

7

Hongtai Shi

2018

China

Asian

Surgery

36 (1–75)

135

2012–2014

688

OS

8

YuChen Pan

2018

China

Asian

Surgery

59.9

115

2008–2012

870

OS

8

Guangsheng Zhu

2018

China

Asian

Surgery

NA

117.78

2010–2016

248

OS

7

Hai-Jeon Yoon

2018

Japan

Asian

Surgery

34.5 (6.5–74.8)

10.1

2011–2016

134

OS/DFS

8

Yan Zhang

2018

China

Asian

Mixed

NA

172

2011–2014

182

OS/DFS

7

Ji lin

2018

China

Asian

Surgery

NA

116.85

2015–2016

670

OS

7

A. Ramos-Esquivel

2018

Costa Rica

Caucasian

Mixed

13.21 (0–84)

350

2009–2012

381

OS/DFS

7

Jiaxin Wen

2018

UK

Caucasian

Surgery

NA

150

2003–2015

668

OS

7

Angelica Petrillo

2018

Italy

Caucasian

Chemotherapy

29 (20.4–37.5)

157

2010–2017

151

OS

8

Hiroaki Saito

2018

Japan

Asian

Surgery

NA

173.3

2005–2013

453

OS

7

Cheng Tang

2018

China

Asian

Surgery

NA

130.7

2010–2016

104

OS

7

Li-xiang Zhang

2018

China

Asian

Surgery

NA

160

2010–2011

904

OS

7

Osama Abu-Shawer

2019

Jordan

Asian

Mixed

NA

150

NA

447

OS

7

Xinran Zhang

2019

China

Asian

Surgery

44.9 (1–188.9)

168.5

2000–2010

2752

OS

8

Cuixia Liu

2019

China

Asian

Surgery

NA

152.2

2009–2012

400

NA

6

Hua-Long Zheng

2019

China

Asian

Surgery

54 (35–67)

133.03

2009–2013

924

OS

8

Yuka Ohe

2020

Japan

Asian

Chemotherapy

NA

180

2005–2018

41

OS

7

Ibrahim Mungan

2020

Turkey

Caucasian

Surgery

NA

181.8

2015–2018

292

NA

6

Jian-Xian Lin

2020

China

Asian

Surgery

65.6 (1–117)

162.5

2009–2014

2257

OS

8

Guanghui Zhao

2020

China

Asian

Chemotherapy

11.6

143.39

2012–2016

110

OS

8

  1. NA not available, OS overall survival, DFS disease-free survival, NOS Newcastle-Ottawa Scale