From the *First Department of Cardiology, National and Kapodistrian University, “Hippokration” Hospital, Athens, Greece

†Athens Naval and Veterans Hospital, Athens, Greece

‡Department of Cardiology, 424 General Military Training Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

§Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT

¶Department of Endocrinology, 424 General Military Training Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

‖Department of Cardiology, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece.

Disclosure: The authors have no conflicts of interest to report.

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The data that support the findings of this meta-analysis were extracted from the cited studies.

Correspondence: Leonidas Koliastasis, MD, MSc, Mikras Asias 48, 11257, Athens, Greece. E-mail: [email protected].