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. 2022 Sep 8;212:66–75. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2022.09.001

Table 1.

Key characteristics of included studies.

Study no. Author, year and country Study period Sample characteristics
Quality appraisal
Sample size Median/mean age in years Gender
Male Female
1. Di Noia et al., 2021,37 Italy 1/03/2021 to 20/03/2021 914 62 (21–97) 39% 61% Fair
2. Barrière et al., 2021,35 France 1/11/2020 to 12/12/2020 999 67 (18–97) 43.9% 56.1% Fair
3. Brodziak A et al., 2021,31 Poland 26/01/2021 to 18/02/2021 635 53 (18–89) 19.8% 80.2% Good
4. Conti et al., 202141 1/12/2020 to 21/12/2020 6516 63.93 ± 12.28 40.2% 59.8% Fair
5. Villarreal-Garza et al., 2021,36 Mexico 12/03/2021 to 26/03/2021 540 49 (23–85) 100% Fair
6. Waters et al., 2021,38 USA 10/2020– to 01/2021 342 29.5 ± 6.5 38.9% 61.1% Fair
7. Mejri et al., 2021,33 Tunisia 02/2021 to 05/2021 329 54 ± 13.4 21.3% 78.7% Good
8. Yang He et al., 2021,20 China - Hubei Not indicated 115 Fair
9. Moujaess et al., 2021,21 Lebanon 25/01/2021– to 12/02/2021 111 61 (23–85) 33.3% 66.7% Fair
10. Brzuszek et al., 2021,40 Poland Not indicated 280 73% 27% Fair
11. Chun et al., 2021,31 Korea 02/2021– to 04/2021 993 57.4 ± 12.0 28.3% 71.7% Fair
12. Chan et al., 2021,34 China–Hong Kong 31/01/2021– to 15/02/2021 660 34.5% 65.5% Good
13. Brko et al., 2021,47 Serbia 1/07/2021– to 15/08/2021 767 Fair
14. Heyne et al., 2022,25 Germany 09/2021– to 11/2021 438 61.4 ± 12.3 39.5% 60.5% Fair
15. De Sousa et al., 2022,28 Portugal 08/03/2021– to 02/04/2021 169 61 (29–82) 35.5% 64.5% Good
16. Cerić et al., 2022,45 Bosnia and Herzegovina 22/10/2021– to 30/11/2021 1063 61.9 ± 11.5 34.3% 65.7% Fair
17. Waters et al., 2022,23 USA 10/2020– to 01/2021 341 39.3% 60.7% Fair
18. Roupa et al., 2021,24 Cyprus 22/01/2021– to 12/02/2021 211 52.6 ± 12.4 34.6% 64.9% Fair
19. Khiari et al., 2021,43 Tunisia 02/2021 200 54.4 ± 12.7 34.5% 65.5% Good
20. Nguyen et al., 2021,42 Australia 30/07/2021– to 07/08/2021 1073 62 ± 11.97 43.2% 56.2% Good
21. Peng et al., 2021,46 China 05/06/2021– to 12/06/2021 744 48 (40–54) 0.4% 99.6% Good
22. Erdem and Karaman, 2021,29 Turkey 05/2021– to 06/2021 300 55.16 ± 12.91 35% 65% Fair
23. Admasu, 2021,44 Ethiopia 05/2021– to 08/2021 422 35.7 ± 6.86 42.8% 57.2% Good
24. Zhuang et al., 2021,22 China 03/2021– to 05/2021 324 Good
25. Foster et al., 2021, Germany 15/03/2021– to 28/07/2021 120 Breast cancer: 57 (23–85)
Gynaecological cancer: 56 (34–78)
3.33% 96.67% Fair
26. Hong et al., 2021,30 China 17/06/2021– to 03/09/2021 2158 48.89% 51.11% Good
27. Marijanović et al., 2021,48 Bosnia and Herzegovina 02/2021 364 61.6 ± 11.2 38.5% 61.5% Good
28. Couderc et al., 2021,27 France 18/01/2021– to 07/05/2021 150 81 ± 0.5 61.3% 38.7% Fair
29. Noronha et al., 2021,32 India 07/05/2021– to 10/06/2021 435 58 (52–65) 73.8% 26.2% Fair