Open Access
Table I
Main characteristics of the included articles.
| Year of publication | Author | Sources | Type of study (level of evidence) |
Country of publication |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Beziat et al. [11] | PubMed, Scopus | Prospective cohort study (grade III-2) |
France |
| 2014 | Ritto et al. [4] | PubMed, Scopus | Retrospective cohort study (grade III-2) |
Brazil |
| 2017 | Liebregts et al. [12] | PubMed, Scopus | Retrospective cohort study (grade III-2) |
Netherlands |
| 2018 | Salmen et al. [13] | PubMed, Scopus | Retrospective cohort study (grade III-2) |
Brazil |
| 2019 | Liebregts et al. [14] | PubMed, Scopus | Retrospective cohort study (grade III-2) |
Netherlands |
| 2019 | Stokbro et al. [15] | PubMed, Scopus | Retrospective cohort study (grade III-2) |
Danemark |
| 2021 | Borikanphanitphaisan et al. [16] | PubMed, Scopus | Retrospective cohort study (grade III-2) |
Taiwan |
| 2021 | Hamdy and Elfaramawi [17] | PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane | Randomized clinical trial (grade II) |
Egypt |
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