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. 2023 Jul 19;15(7):e42112. doi: 10.7759/cureus.42112

Table 4. Quality appraisal using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale for cohort studies.

Study Selection Comparison Outcome
Sugiyama et al. (2019) [30] ** * ***
Prasad et al. (2019) [31] *** * ***
Krag et al. (2021) [32] ** * ***
Kawaguchi et al. (2014) [33] *** * **
De Queiroz Mendonca et al. (2019) [34] *** * ***
Barzilai Birenboim et al. (2022) [35] *** * **
De Queiroz Mendonca et al. (2014) [36] *** * **
Hariharan et al. (2021) [37] ** * ***
Chang et al. (2022) ** * **