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. 2020 Nov 20;99(47):e22891. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000022891

Table 1.

The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale scores for included studies.

Items Wszolek, 2011 Yun, 2012 Ratert, 2013 Pignot, 2013 Wang, 2015 Martínez-Fernández, 2015 Liu, 2018 Wu, 2018
Selection ☆☆☆☆ ☆☆☆☆ ☆☆☆ ☆☆☆ ☆☆☆ ☆☆☆☆ ☆☆☆ ☆☆☆ ☆☆☆☆
 Representativeness of the exposed cohort
 Selection of the non-exposed cohort
 Ascertainment of exposure
 Outcome of interest was not present at start of study NA NA NA NA NA
Comparability ☆☆ ☆☆ ☆☆ ☆☆ ☆☆ ☆☆
Outcome ☆☆☆ ☆☆☆ ☆☆ ☆☆☆ ☆☆☆ ☆☆☆ ☆☆ ☆☆ ☆☆
 Assessment of outcome
 Follow-up time was long enough for outcomes to occur NA NA NA
 Adequacy of follow-up of cohorts NA
Total scores 9 7 8 8 8 7 6 7

NA = not available.