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. 2023 Jan 16;13(2):322. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics13020322

Table 1.

Data of SEL etiologies from a recent systematic literature review (time period 1990–2020) by Alomari et al. [77] and from a previous systematic literature review (time period 1975–2003) by Fogel et al. [2].

Literature Review (Time Period 1990–2020)—Causes of SEL %
Obesity 52
Exogenous steroid use 22
Idiopathic 26
Literature Review (Time Period 1975–2003)—Causes of SEL %
Exogenous steroid use 55.3
Obesity 24.5
Idiopathic 17
Endogenous steroid hormonal disease 3.2