Table 2.
Characteristics of the included randomized trials
Study (reference) | Publication year | Country | Number of subjects |
Monici et al[35] | 2010 | Brazil | 70 |
Luz et al[26] | 2011 | Brazil | 83 |
Santos et al[34] | 2011 | Brazil | 38 |
Lo et al[31] | 2013 | Taiwan | 118 |
Stanley et al[30] | 2014 | United Kingdom | 64 |
Chen et al[28] | 2016 | China | 96 |
Holster et al[32] | 2016 | Netherlands | 72 |
Mansour et al[27] | 2017 | Egypt | 120 |
Lv et al[33] | 2017 | China | 49 |
Hanif et al[29] | 2017 | Pakistan | 60 |