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. 2021 May 11;7(7):FSO713. doi: 10.2144/fsoa-2021-0036

Table 2. . Newcastle Ottawa Scale quality assessment of the included studies.

Study Selection Comparability
Outcomes
  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) * * * * * * *