Retraction
The Editors are retracting this article [1] because post-publication peer review has identified multiple errors in the methodology of this meta-analysis, which invalidate the conclusions drawn. In addition, there is overlap of text with other published articles; the main sources of overlap are [2–5]. The authors do not agree with this retraction.
The online version of this article contains the full text of the retracted article as electronic supplementary material.
Footnotes
The original article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12937-016-0148-y.
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