Osteoprotegerin concentration and risk of cardiovascular outcomes in nine general population studies: Literature-based meta-analysis involving 26,442 participants

• Lena Tschiderer,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

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• Johann Willeit,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

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• Georg Schett,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 3, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

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• Stefan Kiechl,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

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• Peter Willeit

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: peter.willeit@i-med.ac.at

  Affiliations Department of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1866-7159

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