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. 2023 Oct 13;102(41):e35612. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000035612

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