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. 2020 Sep 21;17:15. doi: 10.1186/s11556-020-00246-6

Table 2.

Quality assessment of the quantitative studies

Reference A
Selection bias
B
Study design
C
Confounder
D
Binding
E
Data collection
F
Withdrawals and drop-outs
Lowery et al., 2014 [41] + + + + + +
McCurry et al., 2010 [42] + + + + + +/−
Rantakokko et al., 2017 [43] + + + + + +
Van Uffelen et al., 2009 [44] + + + + + +/−

+ strong; +/− moderate; − weak