Zafar, Mohammad Ishraq http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0435-4370
Mills, Kerry E. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4745-1226
Baird, Charles D. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0454-3240
Jiang, Huahua http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7243-0208
Li, Honggang http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6666-8527
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation Fund, China (82150410456)
Postdoctoral Science Foundation Fund, China (2019M662636)
Article History
Accepted: 20 February 2023
First Online: 21 March 2023
Declarations
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: MIZ, KEM, and HL designed the study and defined the inclusion and exclusion criteria; MIZ and KEM designed the study search; MIZ and KEM did abstract and full-text inclusion and exclusion; HJ and KEM extracted data from studies and cross-checked; CDB designed the network meta-analysis approach, undertook all network meta-analysis and sensitivity analyses for the networks; KEM did pairwise meta-analysis and meta-regression; MIZ, KEM, and CDB wrote the manuscript; HL provided critical feedback on the manuscript.
: MIZ, KEM, CBD, HJ and HL have no conflicts to declare.
: The study was supported by two grants to MI Zafar: the Research Fund for Young International Scientists from the National Natural Science Foundation Fund (Grant number 82150410456) and a research fund from the Postdoctoral Science Foundation, P.R. China (Grant number 2019M662636).
: The funding bodies are public entities; they had no role in the study conception, design, conduct, or result interpretation and publication of the manuscript.
: All data and network meta-analysis are available at ExternalRef removed. The meta-analyses themselves are available upon request to the authors.
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: The code used in this study is available at ExternalRef removed.