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. 2018 Jul 14;24(26):2902–2914. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v24.i26.2902

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