aDepartment of Internal Medicine, Holbaek Hospital, Holbaek

bDepartment of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark

cDepartment of Public Health, Research Unit for Environment, Occupation and Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

dCenter for Research on Environment, Health and Population Activities (CREPHA), Kusunti, Lalitpur, Nepal

eCentre for Anaesthesiological Research, Department of Anaesthesiology, Zealand University Hospital, Koge

fDepartment of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark

gDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Odense University Hospital

hDepartment of Cardiology, Odense University Hospital, Odense Denmark

iDepartment of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Mayland, USA

jCopenhagen Trial Unit, Centre for Clinical Intervention Research, Copenhagen University Hospital- Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Correspondence to Anupa Rijal, Department of Internal Medicine, Holbaek Hospital, Smedelundsgade 60, 4300 Holbaek, Denmark, Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark. E-mail: [email protected]

Abbreviations: CI, Confidence Interval; GRADE, Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation; HICs, High-Income Countries; IQR, Inter-quartile Range; LMICs, Low-and-Middle Income Countries; MD, Mean Difference; NCDs, Non communicable disease; RR, Relative Risk

Received 19 May, 2023

Revised 8 August, 2023

Accepted 14 September, 2023

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