Fig. 2.
Publications included in the analysis by type (n = 46). Congress presentations accounted for the largest proportion of publications included in this review (n = 23, 50.0%) followed closely by full-text publications (n = 22, 47.8%). One publication was an erratum to a full-text publication describing a study conducted in Latin America [85]. Most publications described studies conducted in countries of Emerging Asia (n = 14, 30.4%) and Latin America (n = 14, 30.4%) followed by Turkey (n = 12, 26.1%), the Middle East (n = 6, 10.9%) and Russia (n = 1, 2.2%). None of the publications identified in this scoping review described studies conducted in Africa. Publications from countries of Emerging Asia constituted the largest proportion of congress presentations (34.8%) followed by publications from Latin America (30.4%). Turkey accounted for the largest proportion of full-text publications (36.4%) followed by countries of Emerging Asia and Latin America (27.3% for both). The single publication from Russia included in this review was a congress abstract