Table 3 Quality of the studies on the Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale for cohort studies.
Author (Year) | Selection (****) | Comparability (**) | Outcome (***) | Total Score | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5a | 5b | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||
Agarwal et al.23 (2016) | * | * | * | * | 4 | |||||
Germa et al.24 (2016) | * | * | * | * | * | 5 | ||||
Feldens et al.32 (2016) | * | * | * | * | 4 | |||||
Lopes-Freire et al.7 (2015) | * | * | * | * | * | 5 | ||||
Peres et al.10 (2015) | * | * | * | * | * | * | 6 | |||
Chen et al.9 (2015) | * | * | * | * | 4 | |||||
Sum et al.29 (2015) | * | * | * | * | 4 | |||||
Agarwal et al.23 (2014) | * | * | * | * | 4 | |||||
Limeira et al.8 (2014) | * | * | * | * | * | * | 6 | |||
Moimaz et al.28 (2014) | * | * | * | * | * | * | 6 | |||
Galan-Gonzalez et al.11 (2014) | * | * | * | * | 4 | |||||
Correa-Faria et al.12 (2014) | * | * | * | * | * | 5 | ||||
Bueno et al.27 (2013) | * | * | * | * | * | 5 | ||||
Caramez da Silva et al.14 (2012) | * | * | * | * | * | 5 | ||||
Thomaz et al.31 (2012) | * | * | * | * | * | 5 | ||||
Raftowicz-Wojcik et al.6 (2011) | * | * | * | 3 | ||||||
Nahas-Scocate et al.13 (2011) | * | * | * | * | 4 | |||||
Romero et al.26 (2011) | * | * | * | * | 4 | |||||
Massuia et al.18 (2011) | * | * | * | * | 4 | |||||
Diouf et al.36 (2010) | * | * | * | * | * | 5 | ||||
Kobayashi et al.22 (2010) | * | * | * | * | 4 | |||||
Leite-Cavalcanti et al.35 (2007) | * | * | * | * | 4 | |||||
Peres et al.21 (2007a) | * | * | * | * | * | * | 6 | |||
Peres et al.25 (2007b) | * | * | * | * | * | 5 | ||||
Lescano de Ferrer et al.20 (2006) | * | * | * | * | 4 | |||||
Luz et al.30 (2006) | * | * | * | * | * | 5 | ||||
Lopez del Valle et al.34 (2006) | * | * | * | * | * | 5 | ||||
Viggiano et al.4 (2004) | * | * | * | * | * | 5 | ||||
Warren et al.5 (2002) | * | * | * | * | * | 5 | ||||
Karjalainen et al.19 (1999) | * | * | * | * | * | * | 6 | |||