Gallstones as a predictor of elevated cardiovascular disease risk: A meta-analysis and meta-regression of over 7.4 million participants

• Refli Hasan,

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

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia

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• Fatemeh Allahbakhshi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Andrey D. Shlyk,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia

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• Khadija Allahbakhshi

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

  * E-mail: khadijahallahbakeshei2016@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5945-1420

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