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. 2016 May 19;2016:5484568. doi: 10.1155/2016/5484568

Table 2.

Quality assessment of included studies using the Newcastle-Ottawa scale.

Selection Comparability Exposure Total score
Case definition Representativeness of the case Selection of controls Definition of controls Comparability of cases and controls Ascertainment of exposure Same method of ascertainment for cases and controls Nonresponse rate
Hirooka et al. 2012 [24] ☆☆ 7
Roberts et al. 2012 [28] ☆☆ 6
Usui et al. 2012 [25] ☆☆ 7
Li et al. 2013 [26] ☆☆ 6
Li et al. 2013 [27] ☆☆ 6
Hosseini et al. 2014 [22] ☆☆ 6
Zhang et al. 2014 [23] ☆☆ 6
Park et al. 2014 [18] ☆☆ 7
Chung et al. 2014 [19] ☆☆ 7
Kim et al. 2014 [20] ☆☆ 7
Lamparter et al. 2015 [29] ☆☆ 7
Van Keer et al. 2015 [30] ☆☆ 6
Jin et al. 2015 [21] ☆☆ 7

One ☆ represents one score and the maximum score is 9.