Title: Triglyceride glucose waist circumference and Non alcoholic fatty liver disease: a
systematic review and meta analysis
Version: 1 Date: 30 Mar 2025
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors,
I would like to thank you for the opportunity to review the modified manuscript entitled
"Triglyceride glucose waist circumference and Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a systematic
review and meta-analysis."
After reviewing the modified manuscript in details, There are some suggestions for authors to
improve readability and quality:
1- The article mentioned conducting additional sensitivity analyses, including meta-regression
of potential confounding variables (NAFLD diagnostic methods, population types, and study
design) to elucidate their role as not the main sources of heterogeneity, and claimed that were
presented at Supplementary Table 3. The mentioned table must be provided since it was not
uploaded in the article-related supplementary files.
2- I think the authors put their efforts in modifying the labels of Figure 5 for better reflecting
the outcome categories in the meta-analysis(“low” vs. “high”), but it seems that the uploaded
version of the figure is corrupted and the corrected copy must be uploaded to support the study
claims.
Otherwise, the authors have adhered to every comments / suggestions being provided in the peer
review, and justifications for these changes have been discussed in the modified manuscript.
Title: Triglyceride glucose waist circumference and Non alcoholic fatty liver disease: a
systematic review and meta analysis
Version: 1 Date: 30 Mar 2025
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors,
I would like to thank you for the opportunity to review the modified manuscript entitled
"Triglyceride glucose waist circumference and Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a systematic
review and meta-analysis."
After reviewing the modified manuscript in details, There are some suggestions for authors to
improve readability and quality:
1- The article mentioned conducting additional sensitivity analyses, including meta-regression
of potential confounding variables (NAFLD diagnostic methods, population types, and study
design) to elucidate their role as not the main sources of heterogeneity, and claimed that were
presented at Supplementary Table 3. The mentioned table must be provided since it was not
uploaded in the article-related supplementary files.
2- I think the authors put their efforts in modifying the labels of Figure 5 for better reflecting
the outcome categories in the meta-analysis(“low” vs. “high”), but it seems that the uploaded
version of the figure is corrupted and the corrected copy must be uploaded to support the study
claims.
Otherwise, the authors have adhered to every comments / suggestions being provided in the peer
review, and justifications for these changes have been discussed in the modified manuscript.
Please review this paper.
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Title: Triglyceride glucose waist circumference and Non alcoholic fatty liver disease: a
systematic review and meta analysis
Version: 1 Date: 30 Mar 2025
Reviewer's report:
Dear authors,
I would like to thank you for the opportunity to review the modified manuscript entitled
"Triglyceride glucose waist circumference and Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a systematic
review and meta-analysis."
After reviewing the modified manuscript in details, There are some suggestions for authors to
improve readability and quality:
1- The article mentioned conducting additional sensitivity analyses, including meta-regression
of potential confounding variables (NAFLD diagnostic methods, population types, and study
design) to elucidate their role as not the main sources of heterogeneity, and claimed that were
presented at Supplementary Table 3. The mentioned table must be provided since it was not
uploaded in the article-related supplementary files.
2- I think the authors put their efforts in modifying the labels of Figure 5 for better reflecting
the outcome categories in the meta-analysis(“low” vs. “high”), but it seems that the uploaded
version of the figure is corrupted and the corrected copy must be uploaded to support the study
claims.
Otherwise, the authors have adhered to every comments / suggestions being provided in the peer
review, and justifications for these changes have been discussed in the modified manuscript.
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