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. 2022 Oct 6;9:973368. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.973368

TABLE 2.

Quality assessment of included studies.

A. Case reports and case series

First author (year) Selection Ascertainment Causality Reporting Risk of bias

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

B. Cohort studies and case-control studies

First author (year) Selection Comparability Exposure/outcome Risk of bias

Max score 4 2 3 9

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