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. 2017 Apr 25;12(4):e0176008. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176008

Table 2. Newcastle-Ottawa Scale for quality assessment of studies included in the meta-analysis.

Study Selection Comparability Outcome Overall
Representativeness of the exposed cohort Selection of the nonexposed cohort Assessment of exposure Outcome not present at start Assessment of outcome Follow-up long enough for outcomes Adequacy of follow-up
Porrata (2010) ☆☆ 8
Ho (2015) ☆☆ 9
Keam (2015) ☆☆ 8
Melchardt (2015) ☆☆ 8
Ming (2015) ☆☆ 7
Hong (2016) ☆☆ 8
Ni (2016) ☆☆ 7
Wang (2016) ☆☆ 8
Wang (2017) ☆☆ 9