A modest protective association between pet ownership and cardiovascular diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis

• Tzu-Lin Yeh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Family Medicine, Hsinchu MacKay Memorial Hospital, Hsinchu City, Taiwan, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1894-0394

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• Wei-Te Lei,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Hsinchu MacKay Memorial Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

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• Shu-Jung Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medical Library, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Tamsui Branch, New Taipei City, Taiwan

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• Kuo-Liong Chien

  Roles Supervision

  * E-mail: klchien@ntu.edu.tw

  Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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