The methodological quality of each study and the risk of bias of randomized and non-randomized studies were rated using the Cochrane Collaboration tool [16] and Newcastle-Ottawa Scale [17], respectively. We used Review Manager 5.3 (The Nordic Cochrane Centre, The Cochrane Collaboration, Copenhagen, Denmark) software package to construct comparison plots.
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