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. 2017 Nov;5(6):351–362.

Table 2.

Quality assessment conducted according to the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale for all the included studies

First author Quality indicators

Selection Comparability Exposure
Bergink 2003 *** * **
Jin 2004 *** * ***
Xue 2004 *** * ***
Tian 2009 ** * **
Yang 2009 *** * **
Riancho a 2010 *** * **
Riancho b 2010 *** * **
Riancho c 2010 *** * ***
Borgonio-Cuadra 2012 ** * ***
Dai 2014 *** * **
Liu 2014 **** * **
Jiao 2007 ** * **
Tawonsawatruk 2009 *** * **