Table 1.
Quality Assessment Ratings of the 35 Articles by the National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute Study Quality Assessment Tool Type
| First Author, Year | Quality Rating |
|---|---|
| Controlled Intervention Studies | |
| Pressler, 2015 | Good |
| Before-After (Pre-Post) Studies with No Control Group | |
| Pressler, 2017 | Fair |
| Case-Control Studies | |
| Bozzini, 2009 | Fair |
| Chaldakov, 2004 | Poor |
| Costa, 2014 | Fair |
| Jiang, H, 2009 | Good |
| Kadowaki, 2016 | Fair |
| Lee, 2012 | Fair |
| Lorgis, 2010 | Good |
| Stanne, 2016 | Fair |
| Sustar, 2016 | Fair |
| Takashio, 2015 | Fair |
| Wu, 2019 | Fair |
| Zembron-Lacny, 2016 | Poor |
| Zhang, 2015 | Fair |
| Observational Cohort and Cross-Sectional Studies | |
| Bus, 2011 | Poor |
| Fukushima, 2015 | Good |
| Golden, 2010 | Fair |
| Greisenegger, 2015 | Fair |
| Lasek-Bal, 2015 | Good |
| Ejiri, 2005 | Fair |
| Jiang, R, 2017 | Fair |
| Jiang, H, 2011 | Fair |
| Jung, 2011 | Poor |
| Kadoya, 2014 | Poor |
| Kaess, 2015 | Fair |
| Kurajoh, 2017 | Fair |
| Lee, 2018 | Fair |
| Pedersen, 2017 | Fair |
| Rahman, 2017 | Fair |
| Sanchez-DeToledo, 2014 | Good |
| Schutte, 2016 | Poor |
| Shibata, 2018 | Fair |
| Szabo, 2013 | Fair |
| van Vuren, 2019 | Fair |