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Table 2 Credibility ratings for identified new reviews according to 16 item AMSTAR 2 tool

From: New global guidelines on sedentary behaviour and health for adults: broadening the behavioural targets

Author, Year

ACM

Cause-specific mortality

CVD

Cancer

Diabetes

Adiposity

Last Search Date

AMSTAR 2 d

Ahmad 2017 [23]

  

X

 

X

X

Dec 2016

Moderate

Bailey 2019 [24]

  

X

 

X

 

Feb 2019

Moderate

Berger 2019 [25]

 

Prostate

 

Prostate

  

Jan 2019

Moderate

Chan 2019 [26]

   

Breast

  

Apr 2017

Moderate

del Pozo-Cruz 2018 [6]

X

 

X

 

X

X

Dec 2016

Moderate

Ekelund 2018 [3] a

 

CVD, Cancer

    

Oct 2015

Moderate

Ekelund 2019 [5]

X

     

Jul 2018

Moderate

Ku 2018 [27]

X

     

Jan 2018

Moderate

Ku 2019 [28]

X

     

Mar 2019

Moderate

Lee 2019 [29]

   

Ovarian

  

Dec 2017

Critically Low e

Ma 2018 [30]

   

Colorectal

  

Feb 2017

Critically Low e

Mahmood 2017 [31]

   

Colorectal

  

Dec 2015

Low

Mañas 2017 [32]

X b

     

Oct 2016

Critically Lowe

Patterson 2018 [7]

X

CVD, Cancer

  

X

 

Sep 2016

Low

Shepard 2017 [33]

   

Bladder

  

Jun 2016

Critically Lowe

Wang 2018 [34]

   

Colorectal

  

Sep 2018

High

Xu 2019 [35] c

X

     

May 2018

Low

  1. a Secondary data analysis of 2016 review [4]
  2. b Not included for all-cause mortality given better quality reviews reporting this outcome
  3. c Individual participant data meta-analysis
  4. d See WHO report [16] for details on the AMSTAR 2 tool to rate the credibility of the evidence and the full evidence profiles
  5. e Reviews rated as having critically low credibility were not incorporated into the final evidence profiles