Study | Selection | Comparability | Ascertainment of exposure/outcome | Score | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||
Sun et al. [10] | √ | √ | √ | √ |  ×  | √ | √ | √ | √ | 8 |
Parikh et al. [11] | √ | √ | √ | √ |  ×  |  ×  | √ |  ×  | √ | 6 |
Jun et al. [22] | √ | √ | √ | √ |  ×  |  ×  | √ |  ×  | √ | 6 |
Jun et al. [17] | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |  ×  | √ | √ | √ | 8 |
Jeong et al. [19] | √ | √ | √ | √ |  ×  | √ | √ | √ | √ | 8 |
Su et al. [23] | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |  ×  | √ | 8 |
Takeda et al. [26] | √ | √ | √ | √ |  ×  |  ×  | √ | √ | √ | 7 |
Scorsetti et al. [8] | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |  ×  | √ | 8 |
Kimura et al. [24] | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | 9 |
Shiozawa et al. [12] | √ | √ | √ | √ |  ×  |  ×  | √ |  ×  | √ | 6 |
Naoko Sanuki et al. [25] | √ | √ | √ | √ |  ×  |  ×  | √ | √ | √ | 7 |
Yoon et al. [9] | √ | √ | √ | √ |  ×  |  ×  | √ | √ | √ | 7 |
Jung et al. [18] | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | 9 |
Kwon et al. [16] | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | 9 |