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. 2019 Aug 5;16(15):2792. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16152792

Table 3.

Quality assessment scores for the studies included in this meta-analysis.

First Author (year) Selection Comparability Exposure Total Points
Butali, 2011 [28] *** * *** 7
Pan, 2011 [13] *** ** *** 8
Fontoura, 2012 [23] ** * ** 5
Huang, 2012 [20] **** * *** 8
Ludwig, 2014 [26] **** - *** 7
Mi, 2014 [21] *** ** *** 8
Babu Gurramkond, 2015 [24] *** ** *** 8
do Rego Borges, 2015 [27] **** - *** 7
Reiter, 2015 [25] *** * *** 7
Sun, 2015 [22] **** * *** 8

Each asterisk means one point.