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Accepted: 2 February 2023

First Online: 3 March 2023

Declarations

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: Nan Zheng, Jinyan Zhong, Xi Chen, Jia Su, Chengjiang Liu and Longfu Jiang declare they have no potential conflicts of interest that might be relevant to the contents of this manuscript.

: No external funding was used in the preparation of this manuscript.

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: The datasets generated during and analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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: NZ and LFJ designed the study and developed the search strategy. NZ and JYZ executed the systematic evaluation as the first and second reviewers, searching and screening the summaries and titles, assessing the inclusion and exclusion criteria, generating data collection forms and extracting data, evaluating the quality of each study, and drafting the article. CJL, JS and LFJ checked and revised the language of the article to improve the quality of the language. NZ, XC, and LFJ contributed to the data analysis. NZ, JYZ and LFJ contributed to the interpretation of the data. NZ, XC, JS and LFJ advised on and revised the inclusion/exclusion criteria and performed the meta-analysis.