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Flow diagram of the literature selection. PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Medline and Web of Science were searched for the literature with designed searching terms. After screening the ps, abstracts, and then the full text for relevance step by step, nine studies were considered suitable to conduct the said meta-analysis in the end
