Sensitivity analyses conducted within the individual studies, in which those with significant weight changewithin 4–5 years of baseline (113), or type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease within 3 years ofbaseline were removed (103), did not significantly affect the results. However, removing thosewith prevalent hypertension, cardiovascular disease or type 2 diabetes abrogated the effect inthe 2017 study by Pase et al. (114).