Table 2. . Newcastle Ottawa Scale quality assessment of the included studies.
Study | Selection | Comparability |
Outcomes | |||||
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Representativeness of the exposed cohort | Selection of the nonexposed cohort | Ascertainment of exposure | The outcome was not present at the start of the study | Comparable cohort | Assessment of outcome | Follow-up long enough | Adequacy of follow-up of the cohort | |
Hernández-Fernández et al.(2020) | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
Li et al. (2020) | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
Lodigiani et al. (2020) | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
Zhang et al. (2020) | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
Annie et al. (2020) | * | * | * | – | – | * | * | * |
Fan et al. (2020) | * | * | * | – | * | * | * | * |
Shahjouei et al. (2020) | * | * | * | – | * | * | * | * |
Bach et al. (2020) | * | * | * | – | * | * | * | * |