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. 2022 Aug 28;14(8):e28496. doi: 10.7759/cureus.28496

Table 1. Inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Inclusion criteria Exclusion criteria
1. Papers focusing on adult and geriatric population 1. Papers discussing pediatric population
2. Published literature reviews, systematic reviews, and randomized controlled trials 2. Case studies, observational studies, and grey literature
3. Papers selected from the previous 25 years 3. Papers published over 25 years ago
4. Intrinsic/extrinsic pathways of apoptosis 4. Necrosis, reversible cell injury
5. Papers written in the English language 5. Papers not written in the English language
6. Papers relevant to the question 6. Papers irrelevant to the question