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Table 3

Summary of critical appraisal of included studies using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale for assessing the quality of observational studies.
StudySelectionComparabilityOutcome
Koller W.C et al. 2001★★★★
Ondo et al. 2001★★★★★★
Pahwa R et al. 2001★★★★★★★
Fields J.A et al. 2003★★★
Papavassiliou E et al. 2004★★★
Kuncel A.M et al. 2006★★★★★★
Van den Wildenberg WP et al. 2006★★★★
Pahwa et al. 2006★★
Blomstedt et al. 2007★★★★
Ellis TM et al. 2008★★★★★
Zhang K et al. 2010★★★
Morishita T et al. 2010★★
Graff-Radford J et al. 2010★★★
Barbe et al. 2011★★★
Vassal F et al. 2012★★★★★
Zahos P.A. et al. 2013★★★★★
Felicitas Ehlen et al. 2014★★★★
Rodríguez, C et al. 2016★★★
Isaacs D.A et al. 2018★★★
Paschen S et al. 2018★★
Barbe M.T et al. 2018★★★★★★
Akram H et al. 2018★★★★
Fenoy, A.J et al. 2018★★★★★★
Paschen S et al. 2019★★★★★
Morishita T et al. 2019★★★★
Reich M et al. 2017★★★
Hubble J.P. et al. 1996★★★★
Koller W.C et al. 1999★★★★
Taha J M. et al. 1999★★★★★
Rehncrona S et al. 2003★★★★★
Lee J Y.K. et al. 2005★★★★
Törnqvist A. L et al. 2007★★★★★
Lind G et al. 2008★★★★★
Blomstedt P et al.2010★★★★
Baizabal Carvallo JF et al. 2012★★★★★
Carballal C.F. et al. 2013★★★★★
Borretzen M.N. et al. 2014★★★★
Baizabal Carvallo JF et al. 2014★★★★
Hariz G-M et al. 2015★★★★
Verla T. et al. 2015★★★★
Sharma V.D et al. 2015★★★★★
Silva D et al. 2016★★★★★
Klein J et al. 2017★★★★★
Wharen R E. et al. 2017★★★★
Chen T et al. 2018★★★★★
Koller W.C et al. 1999★★★★★★★
Kuncel A.M et al. 2006★★★★★★★
Felicitas Ehlen et al. 2014★★★★★★
Barbe M.T et al. 2018★★★★★★★
Each of these three categories has further subcategories and gives stars. The studies with the maximum number of stars are of higher quality than those with fewer stars. Empty cells show that no stars are available for this category.