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 |