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. 2023 Sep 19;15(9):e45517. doi: 10.7759/cureus.45517

Table 2. Quality assessment of cohort studies using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale.

Study Selection Comparability Outcome Overall
Del Valle and Chang 2019 [14] ** ** ** 6, moderate
Mohieldin et al. 2018 [15] ** **   4, moderate quality
Kapoor et al. 2022 [16] *** ** ** 7, high quality
Liu et al. 2019 [17] *** ** ** 7, high quality
Rosa et al. 2022 [18] ** ** ** 6, moderate quality
Ueno et al. 2019 [19] ** ** ** 6, moderate quality