Global, regional and time-trend prevalence of central obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 13.2 million subjects

This data archive contains the data that supplement the manuscript in European Journal of Epidemiology titled “Global, regional and time-trend prevalence of central obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 13.2 million subjects”. The data consist of the search strategy for article selection, MOOSE checklist for meta-analyses of observational studies, different definitions of metabolic syndrome, classifications of regions, characteristics of studies on prevalence, quality assessment of selected articles, results of univariate and multivariate meta-regression analysis, and results of sensitivity analysis.