Table 1.

Demographic and study design data included in review.

Author, Year	Country	Study Design	N° Patients	M/F Ratio	Age (Mean)
Sollmann N. et al., 2018 [22]	Germany	Prospective study	60	1.72	47.6
Neira J.A. et al., 2017 [23]	USA	Prospective study	32	1	63.9
Marongiu A. et al., 2017 [24]	Italy	Retrospective study	114	1.15	62.3
Moiraghi A. et al., 2019 [25]	Italy, Switzerland	Case series	60	1.72	55.32
Barbagallo G.M.V. et al., 2021 [26]	Italy	Retrospective study	100	0.88	64
Incekara F. et al., 2021 [27]	Netherlands	Randomized controlled trial	50	1.47	63
Barbagallo G.M.V. et al., 2021 [28]	Italy	Retrospective study	20	1.5	54.5
Bassaganyas-Vancells C. et al., 2019 [29]	Spain	Retrospective study	118	1.51	N/A
Nickel K. et al., 2017 [30]	Germany	Multicenter cross sectional study	170	1.46	55
Luzzi S. et al., 2021 [31]	Italy	Retrospective study	117	1.43	55
Raffa G. et al., 2019 [32]	Italy	Retrospective study	82	1.56	58
Chen D. et al., 2019 [33]	China	Retrospective study	95	0.9	48.5
Hong J. et al., 2019 [34]	China	Retrospective study	82	1.1	51
Francaviglia N. et al., 2017 [35]	Italy	Retrospective study	47	1.13	60.3
Lu M. et al., 2020 [36]	China	Retrospective study	46	1.3	45.1
Picart T. et al., 2017 [37]	France	Retrospective study	51	1.28	47
Bettag C. et al., 2020 [38]	Germany	Retrospective study	20	2	72
Catapano G. et al., 2017 [39]	Italy	Retrospective study	48	1.52	57