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The flowchart provides an overview of the study search and selection process. A search of the databases PubMed, CNKI, Web of Science, X-MOL, and the Wanfang database was undertaken, and then duplicate articles and any which did not meet the criteria of our study were removed before the relevant articles were selected for further study.
