“…After reading the abstract of the remaining 48 studies, 37 of them were extracted as initially eligible studies. By examining full texts, 22 articles were finally included in the meta-analysis ( Pradeep et al, 2011 ; Raghavendra et al, 2012 ; Xu et al, 2023 ; Pradeep et al, 2012 ; Tabari et al, 2014 ; Abolfazli et al, 2015 ; Ghallab, Amr & Shaker, 2015 ; Mohamed et al, 2015 ; Tabari et al, 2015 ; Özcan et al, 2016a , 2016b , 2017 ; Tabari et al, 2018 ; Bahammam & Attia, 2018 ; Mopidevi et al, 2019 ; Rezaei et al, 2019 ; Çetiner et al, 2019 ; Paul et al, 2020 ; Saljoughi, Nasri & Bayani, 2020 ; Saseendran et al, 2021 ; Coutinho et al, 2021 ; Bengi et al, 2024 ). The reasons for inclusion in the full-text selection are shown in Fig.…”