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Baseline | Selection | Comparability | Outcome | Quality Score | |||||||||||
Study Title | First Author | Year | Study Design (Prospective or retrospective) | Follow-up period/Duration of exposure | Sample (n) | Age at baseline mean (SD) | 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 on the basis of the design or analysis | Assessment of outcome | Was follow-up long enough for outcomes to occur | Adequacy of follow up of cohorts | |
Nijhoff 2015 [23] | Freek Nijhoff | 2015 | prospective cohort | 12 m | 40 | 57.9 ± 10.0 | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | Good quality |
Yang 2023 [10] | Yi-Xing Yang | 2023 | retrospective cohort | 12 m | 276 | 39.3 ± 4.1 | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | Good quality | |
Merinopoulos 2023 [28] | Merinopoulos | 2023 | prospective cohort | 12m | 1139 | 66 ± 12 | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | Good quality |