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. 2024 Aug 27;13(17):5075. doi: 10.3390/jcm13175075

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PRISMA 2020 flow diagram which includes searches of PubMed. Literature search diagram. A total of 644 papers filled the search string. Of these, 1 article was excluded because the full text was not available. In addition, 620 were excluded because they were meta-analyses, reviews or systematic reviews, so only books and documents, clinical trials and controlled trials were included. A total of 24 papers were eligible for review. After evaluating the titles and abstracts, 13 articles were excluded because they were not relevant to the topic of the review. A further 20 articles were included to provide background after searching for key words and citations [9].