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Figure 1. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Flow Diagram.
After participant identification, screening, and eligibility assessment, 1673 alopecia areata cases were selected for inclusion and matched to 6692 controls without alopecia areata using 1:4 matching.