Table 4 Quality assessment scoring for all included studies
Author and year | Representativeness of the exposed cohort | Selection of the non-exposed cohort | Ascertainment of exposure | Demonstration that outcome of interest was not present at start of study | Comparability of cohorts based on the design or analysis | Assessment of outcome | Was follow-up long enough for outcomes to occur | Adequacy of follow up of cohorts | TOTAL STARS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alipour (2009) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | ||||
Beltran-Alacreu (2018) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||
Bohman (2019) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||
Diebo (2018) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||||
Divi (2020) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||||
Carroll (2004) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||||
Elbinoune (2016) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||
Engquist (2015) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||
Grimby-Ekman (2012) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||||
Hill (2007) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | ||||
Hoe (2012) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||||
Hurwitz (2006) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | ||||
Kim (2018) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||
Lee (2007) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||
MacDowell (2018) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||||
McLean (2011) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||
Meisingset (2018) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||
Myhre (2013) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||||
Peolsson (2006) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | ||||
Pico-Espinosa (2019) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||||
Rodriguez-Romero (2016) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | ||||
van den Heuvel (2005) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | ||||
Wibault (2014) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||