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. 2020 Feb 1;54(1):32–41.

Table 2.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria Exclusion criteria
Published between 2007 and 2019 Published before 2007
English language Languages other than English
Systematic reviews with or without meta-analyses (MAs) of RCTs (or cohort studies if no SRs of RCTs were available) Abstracts, posters, conference proceedings, editorials or commentaries, duplicate studies, narrative reviews, RCTs, observational studies/both cohort and case-control and systematic reviews of observational studies and/or case-control studies.
Studies involving humans Animal studies (in vivo, ex vivo) and in vitro studies