et al. 1997a; Shen et al. 1997b; Shin et al. 2010; Tan et al. 2010; Tanaka et al. 1996; Thomasson et al. 1994; Thomasson et al. 1991; Yamauchi et al. 1995; Yan et al. 2003; Yu et al. 2002) investigated alcoholics without (or without specifying) alcoholic liver disease, cirrhosis, or pancreatitis; seven studies (Chao et al. 1994; Chao et al. 2000; Chao et al. 2003; Chao et al. 1997; Lee et al. 2001; Tanaka et al. 1996; Yamauchi et al. 1995) investigated the alcoholics with alcoholic liver disease, cirrhosis, or pancreatitis; and three studies (Guo et al. 2010; Shin et al. 2010; Thomasson et al. 1994) included the mixed patients of AD and alcohol abuse. For the study by Lee et al. (Lee et al. 2009), some additional data, unavailable in the published paper, were kindly provided by the authors. These studies included 9,678 cases and 7,331 controls (supplementary Table 1). The results are detailed below.
