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. 2022 Sep 9;51:120–127. doi: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2022.09.008

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
a

NIH quality assessment tool has 12 questions for Case-Control studies and 14 questions for observational Cohort and Cross-sectional studies.