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. 2023 Mar 9;20(6):4849. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20064849

Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria according to PICOS.

Parameter Inclusion Criteria Exclusion Criteria
Population Patients with autoimmune thyroid diseases, including Graves’ disease and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis—aged from 0 to 99 years, both genders Patients with other autoimmune diseases
Intervention Not applicable
Comparison Not applicable
Outcomes Salivary alterations quantitative (e.g., hyposalivation) and/or qualitative (e.g., biomolecules) Other salivary alterations (e.g., microbiota)
Study design Case-control, cohort and cross-sectional studies Literature reviews, case reports, expert opinion, letters to the editor, conference reports
Published until 27th September 2022 Not published in English