“…Of these, 115 full-text articles were selected after carefully screening titles and abstracts. Fourteen articles were excluded because they were not case-control studies, while the data of fourteen articles [ 18 , 25 , 37 , 43 , 61 , 65 , 79 , 84 , 86 , 92 , 94 , 95 , 100 , 110 ] overlapped with those of another nine articles [ 26 , 41 , 47 , 48 , 93 , 105 , 107 , 108 , 114 ]. Hence, a total of 87 articles were included in the present meta-analysis.…”