Approximation of hazard ratios as risk ratios

In time-to-event analysis with competing events, is it correct to use risk ratios obtained from table 2 as an approximation to hazard ratios or subhazard ratios in meta-analysis?

In this article for example, they may have 40-50% competing death, but on the other hand it is true that there were few right-censored cases.

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