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. 2024 Nov 5;25:396. doi: 10.1186/s12882-024-03839-w

Table 2.

Methodological quality of the studies included in the meta-analysis1

First
author
Representativeness of the Exposed Cohort Selection of the Non-Exposed Cohort Ascertainment
of exposure
Outcome of interest
not present
at start of study
Control for
important factor
or additional factor
Outcome
assessment
Was Follow-Up Long Enough for Outcomes to Occur Adequacy of Follow Up of Cohorts Total quality
scores
Lv [23] 8
Haas [7] 7
Zhang17 [24] 8
Zhang [14] 8
Park [15] 8
Peng [16] 8
Ma [25] 8
Lin [17] 7
Chen [18] 7
Du [19] 8
Ossareh [20] 8
Ruan [21] 8
Di [22] 7

1 A study could be awarded a maximum of one star for each item except for the item Control for important factor or additional factor