Table 2.
Quality assessment of included studies.
| Study | Design | Items of NIH quality assessment toola |
Summary quality | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | |||
| Yalcin Bahat et al., 2020 [27] | Case-control | yes | yes | no | no | yes | no | no | no | yes | yes | no | no | Fair | ||
| Sinaci et al., 2021 [21] | Case-control | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | no | no | Good | ||
| Tekin et al., 2021 [20] | Prospective case–control | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no | Good | ||
| Seven et al., 2021 [30] | Cross-sectional | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | no | no | yes | yes | no | yes | no | no | no | Good |
| Moreno-Fernandez et al., 2022 [28] | Case-control | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | no | yes | no | no | Good | ||
| Schmitt et al., 2022 [29] | Retrospective cohort | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | no | yes | yes | no | yes | no | yes | no | Good |
| Ferrer-Sánchez et al., 2022 [22] | Case-control | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | no | yes | Good | ||
NIH quality assessment tool has 12 questions for Case-Control studies and 14 questions for observational Cohort and Cross-sectional studies.