Table 2.
The quality assessment of included studies by the Newcastle-Ottawa quality assessment scale.
| Study | Selection | Comparability | Outcome | Scores | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Representativeness of the exposed cohort | Selection of the nonexposed cohort | Ascertainment of exposure | Demonstration that outcome of interest was not present at start of study | Assessment of utcome | Was follow-up long enough for outcomes to occur | Adequacy of follow-up of cohorts | |||
| Mohsenizadeh, 2022 | ✵ | ✵ | ✵ | ✵ | ✵✵ | ✵ | ✵ | ✵ | 9 |
| Guler, 2022 | ✵ | ✵ | ✵ | ✵ | ✵✵ | ✵ | ✵ | - | 8 |
| De Luca, 2021 | ✵ | ✵ | ✵ | ✵ | ✵✵ | ✵ | ✵ | ✵ | 9 |
| Little, 2020 | ✵ | ✵ | ✵ | ✵ | ✵ | ✵ | ✵ | ✵ | 8 |
| Choudry, 2020 | ✵ | ✵ | ✵ | ✵ | ✵✵ | ✵ | ✵ | - | 8 |