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. 2020 Feb 21;15(2):e0229292. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229292

Table 3. Newcastle-Ottawa quality assessment of the included studies.

Study Selection Comparability Outcome
Representativeness of the exposed cohort Selection of the non-exposed cohort Ascertainment of exposure Outcome of interest was presented Assessment of outcome Follow-up long enough for outcomes to occur Adequacy of follow up of cohorts Scores
Roayaie 1998[24] 5
Jan 2005[25] 8
Jiang 2010[26] 7
Shen 2011[27] 7
Wu 2012[28] ★★ 8
Ribero 2012[30] 7
Bhudhisawasdi 2012[29] 7
Li 2013[32] ★★ 9
Liu 2013[31] 8
Sur 2014[33] 7
Miura 2015[34] 8
Li 2015[14] ★★ 9
Okumaura 2016[36] 8
Luvira 2016[35] 6
Hammad 2016[12] 8
Jeong 2017[13] 7
Tran 2017[39] 8
Schweitzer 2017[37] 8
Reames 2017[9] ★★ 9
Zheng 2018[11] 8
Lee 2019[16] 8
Sahara 2019[38] 6