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Table 2 Quality assessment of studies by Newcastle Ottawa Scale (NOS) checklist

From: The global prevalence of gastric cancer in Helicobacter pylori-infected individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Author

Study design

Selection

Comparability

Outcome

Representativeness of the sample

Sample size

Non-respondents

Ascertainment of the exposure (risk factor)

Assessment of outcome

Statistical test

Dabiri et al. [19]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Taghvaei et al. [20]

CS

*

-

*

*

NA

**

*

Wang et al. [21]

CS

*

*

*

*

NA

**

*

Yakoob et al. [22]

CS

*

*

*

**

NA

**

*

Yang et al. [23]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

*

*

Gucin et al. [24]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

*

*

Shrestha et al. [25]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

*

*

Ouyang et al. [26]

CS

*

*

*

**

NA

*

*

Kim et al. [27]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Shukla et al. [28]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Cherati et al. [29]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Raei et al. [30]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Abdi et al. [31]

CS

*

-

*

*

NA

**

*

Goudarzi et al. [32]

CS

*

-

*

*

NA

**

*

Al-Sabary et al. [33]

CS

-

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Ranjbar et al. [34]

CS

-

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Yadegar et al. [35]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Kupcinskas et al. [36]

CS

*

*

*

*

NA

**

*

Oh et al. [37]

CS

-

-

*

*

NA

*

*

Wang et al. [38]

CS

-

-

*

**

NA

*

*

Sakitani et al. [39]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

*

*

Pakbaz et al. [40]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

*

*

Sedarat et al. [41]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Shadman et al. [42]

CS

*

*

*

**

NA

**

*

Shin et al. [43]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

*

*

Archampong et al. [44]

CS

-

-

*

**

NA

*

*

Xie et al. [45]

CS

-

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Deng et al. [46]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Shi et al. [47]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Yu et al. [48]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Szkaradkiewicz et al. [49]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Taghizadeh et al. [50]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Vilar e Silva et al. [51]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Gantuya et al. [52]

CS

*

*

*

**

NA

**

*

Shukla et al. [53]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Hu et al. [54]

CS

-

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Tahara et al. [55]

CS

-

-

*

*

NA

**

*

Ono et al. [56]

CS

*

-

*

*

NA

*

*

Pandey et al. [57]

CS

*

-

*

*

NA

**

*

Huang et al. [58]

CS

*

-

*

*

NA

**

*

Xie et al. [59]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Nam et al. [60]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Saber et al. [61]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Matsunari et al. [62]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

*

*

Khatoon et al. [63]

CS

-

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Amiri et al. [64]

CS

-

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Farajzadeh Sheikh et al. [65]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

El Khadir et al. [66]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Park et al. [67]

CS

*

-

*

*

NA

**

*

Yoon et al. [68]

CS

*

-

*

*

NA

*

*

Guo et al. [69]

CS

*

-

*

*

NA

**

*

Haddadi et al. [70]

CS

*

-

*

*

NA

**

*

Khan et al. [71]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Santos et al. [72]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

GholizadeTobnagh et al. [73]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

*

*

Toyoda et al. [74]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Thirunavukkarasu et al. [75]

CS

-

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Bakhti et al. [76]

CS

-

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Vannarath et al. [77]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

*

*

Wei et al. [78]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Abu-Taleb et al. [79]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Chomvarin et al. [80]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Bilgiç et al. [81]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

*

*

Abadi et al. [82]

CS

-

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Abadi et al. [83]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Ohkusa et al. [84]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Herrera et al. [85]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

*

*

Tanaka et al. [86]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Choi et al. [87]

CS

*

-

*

**

NA

**

*

Masoumi Asl et al. [88]

HBS

       

Vinagre et al. [89]

HBS

       

Khatoon et al. [90]

HBS

       
  1. NA Not applicable, CS cross sectional
  2. As mentioned in the methods section, the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale (NOS) consists of three domains. The first domain is Selection, which includes four items: Representativeness of the sample, Sample size, Non-respondents, Ascertainment of the exposure. If the first three items are established, one star is assigned. If the fourth item is also established, one or two stars are assigned. If none of the items are established, no star is assigned. The second domain is Comparability, which has one item: Comparability of the groups. If this item is established, one star is assigned. If it is not established, no star is assigned. The third domain is Outcome, which includes two items: Assessment of the outcome, Statistical test. If the first item is established, one or two stars are assigned. If the second item is also established, one star is assigned