Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the enrolled studies
ID | Authors (Year) | Location | Investigation years | Study design | Follow-up years | Sample size, n | Confounders adjusted | NOS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bozic, et al. (2014) [27] | North America | 1990–2011 | Prospective case-control | 3.7 | 587 | Multivariate | 7 |
2 | Burn, et al. (2018) [19] | Europe | 1995–2014 | Retrospective cohort | 0.25 | 10,260 | Multivariate | 7 |
3 | Chee, et al. (2010) [28] | Europe | 1998–2003 | Prospective cohort | 5 | 110 | Univariate | 5 |
4 | Choong, et al. (2007) [29] | Asia-Pacific | 1998–2004 | Retrospective cohort | 3.5 | 819 | Univariate | 5 |
5 | Cordero-Ampuero, et al. (2010) [30] | Europe | 1997–2007 | Prospective case-control | 2.3 | 124 | Univariate | 5 |
6 | Dale, et al. (2011) [31] | Europe | 2005–2009 | Prospective cohort | 1 | 5540 | Multivariate | 7 |
7 | Davis, et al. (2011) [32] | Europe | 1998–2005 | Prospective cohort | 5 | 1617 | Multivariate | 8 |
8 | de Boer, et al. (2001) [33] | Europe | 1996–1999 | Retrospective cohort | 1 | 12,588 | Univariate | 6 |
9 | Dowsey, et al. (2008) [12] | Asia-Pacific | 1998–2005 | Retrospective cohort | 1 | 1207 | Univariate | 5 |
10 | Gittings, et al. (2017) [34] | North America | 2009–2014 | Retrospective cohort | 1 | 33 | Univariate/ multivariate | 6 |
11 | Gonzalez, et al. (2018) [35] | Europe | 1996–2013 | Prospective cohort | 5.6 | 5198 | Multivariate | 7 |
12 | Hartford, et al. (2020) [36] | North America | – | Retrospective cohort | 1 | 1808 | Multivariate | 6 |
13 | Huotari, et al. (2007) [37] | Europe | 2001–2004 | Retrospective cohort | 1 | 5614 | Univariate | 5 |
14 | Jamsen, et al. (2012) [14] | Europe | 2002–2008 | Retrospective cohort | 1 | 3266 | Multivariate | 7 |
15 | Jung, et al. (2017) [38] | Asia-Pacific | 2013–2015 | Retrospective cohort | 0.25 | 10,690 | Multivariate | 6 |
16 | Kildow, et al. (2017) [16] | North America | 2005–2012 | Retrospective case-control | 2 | 61,778 | Multivariate | 6 |
17 | Kurtz, et al. (2018) [39] | North America | 2005–2015 | Retrospective case-control | 4.7 | 1,158,742 | Multivariate | 7 |
18 | Lenguerrand, et al. (2018) [40] | Europe | 2003–2013 | Prospective cohort | 4.6 | 623,253 | Multivariate | 8 |
19 | Lubbeke, et al. (2007) [41] | Europe | 1996–2005 | Prospective cohort | 5 | 2495 | Multivariate | 7 |
20 | Maoz, et al. (2015) [42] | North America | 2009–2011 | Retrospective cohort | 2 | 3672 | Multivariate | 6 |
21 | Marjo, et al. (2007) [43] | Europe | 2000–2002 | Prospective cohort | 1 | 1922 | Multivariate | 7 |
22 | Matar, et al. (2020) [44] | North America | 2012–2018 | Retrospective cohort | 1 | 7270 | Multivariate | 7 |
23 | McIntosh, et al. (2006) [45] | North America | 1998–2002 | Retrospective cohort | 2.7 | 448 | Multivariate | 6 |
24 | Meermans, et al. (2012) [46] | Europe | 1998–2006 | Retrospective cohort | 5.9 | 364 | Univariate | 5 |
25 | Muilwijk, et al. (2006) [47] | Europe | 1996–2003 | Retrospective cohort | 1 | 26,127 | Multivariate | 7 |
26 | Namba, et al. (2012) [48] | North America | 2001–2009 | Retrospective cohort | 1 | 30,491 | Univariate/ multivariate | 7 |
27 | Ong, et al. (2009) [49] | North America | 1997–2006 | Prospective cohort | 10 | 39,929 | Multivariate | 7 |
28 | Peel, et al. (2011) [50] | Asia-Pacific | 2000–2007 | Prospective case-control | 1 | 108 | Univariate | 5 |
29 | Rondon, et al. (2018) [51] | North America | 2000–2016 | Retrospective case-control | 5.3 | 145 | Univariate | 6 |
30 | Sequeira, et al. (2020) [52] | North America | 2005–2014 | Retrospective cohort | 1 | 741,078 | Multivariate | 6 |
31 | Sequeira,S et al. (2020) [53] | North America | 2005–2014 | Retrospective cohort | 1 | 483,405 | Multivariate | 6 |
32 | Smith, et al. (2018) [54] | Asia-Pacific | 2000–2014 | Prospective cohort | 1 | 91,585 | Multivariate | 7 |
33 | Sodhi,N et al. (2020) [55] | North America | 2005–2014 | Retrospective cohort | 2 | 14,944 | Univariate | 6 |
34 | Sodhi, et al. (2020) [56] | North America | 2005–2014 | Retrospective cohort | 2 | 162,489 | Multivariate | 6 |
35 | Song, et al. (2012) [57] | Asia-Pacific | 2006–2009 | Retrospective cohort | 1 | 3422 | Univariate/ multivariate | 7 |
36 | Surin, et al. (1983) [25] | Europe | 1970–1977 | Retrospective cohort | 3–10 | 803 | Univariate | 5 |
37 | Tai, et al. (2014) [58] | Asia-Pacific | 1997–2003 | Prospective cohort | 10 | 1420 | Univariate | 5 |
38 | Triantafyllopoulos, et al. (2018) [59] | North America | 1999–2013 | Retrospective cohort | 8.6 | 36,494 | Univariate/ multivariate | 7 |
39 | Vannini, et al. (1984) [15] | Europe | 1969–1979 | Prospective case-control | 2.9 | 1042 | Univariate | 5 |
40 | Wilson, et al. (2020) [60] | North America | 2009–2017 | Retrospective cohort | 1 | 8559 | Multivariate | 6 |