Table 2. Risk of bias assessment using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale.
Study | Newcastle-Ottawa Scale | Overall risk of bias | ||
Selection | Comparability | Exposure | ||
Huang et al., 2020 | *** | * | * | Low |
Guan et al., 2020 | *** | * | ** | Moderate |
Zheng et al., 2020 | **** | * | * | Low |
Wang et al., 2020 | *** | * | ** | Moderate |
Chen et al., 2020 | ** | * | * | High |
Hong et al., 2020 | ** | * | ** | High |
Wang et al., 2020 | ** | * | ** | High |
Mo et al., 2020 | ** | * | * | High |
Wu et al., 2020 | *** | * | ** | Moderate |
Zhou et al., 2020 | *** | * | * | Moderate |
Wang et al., 2020 | *** | * | ** | Moderate |
Huang et al., 2020 | **** | * | * | Low |
Colaneri et al., 2020 | *** | * | ** | Moderate |
Goyal et al., 2020 | ** | * | * | High |
Ruan et al., 2020 | ** | * | * | High |
Rong-Hui Du et al., 2020 | **** | * | * | Low |
Qin et al., 2020 | *** | * | ** | Moderate |
Paranjpe et al., 2020 | **** | * | * | Low |
Zheng et al., 2020 | *** | * | ** | Moderate |
Zhang et al., 2020 | *** | * | * | Moderate |
Mikami et al., 2020 | *** | * | ** | Moderate |
Marcello et al., 2020 | *** | * | ** | Moderate |
Wang et al., 2020 | **** | * | * | Low |
Cao et al., 2020 | ** | * | * | High |
Shahriarirad et al., 2020 | *** | * | * | Moderate |
Suleyman et al., 2020 | ** | * | * | High |
Khamis et al., 2020 | **** | * | * | Low |
Zhang et al., 2020 | *** | * | * | Moderate |
Yang et al., 2020 | *** | * | * | Moderate |