TABLE 2.
Quality assessment of included studies.
| A. Case reports and case series | |||||
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| First author (year) | Selection | Ascertainment | Causality | Reporting | Risk of bias |
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| Max score | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Atsuumi et al. (9) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Eguchi et al. (11) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Iskos et al. (12) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Marrison and Parry (15) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Overdijk et al. (16) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Rytlewski et al. (17) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Shahab et al. (18) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Xu et al. (20) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
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| B. Cohort studies and case-control studies | |||||
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| First author (year) | Selection | Comparability | Exposure/outcome | Risk of bias | |
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| Max score | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | |
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| Busweiler et al. (10) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| Jardine et al. (6) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| Kapoor (13) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | |
| Khadilkar et al. (14) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| Tewfik et al. (19) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 | |