“…Subsequently, through the review of the full text, 23 articles were included in the study. Among them, the comparison between CD and BG includes 11 articles ( Yang et al, 2010 ; Zhao et al, 2013 ; Li et al, 2016 ; Cao et al, 2017 ; Mohanty et al, 2017 ; Sallam et al, 2017 ; Hu et al, 2018 ; Nally et al, 2018 ; Lakshminarayana et al, 2019 ; Wang et al, 2020a ; Shiravani Brojeni et al, 2020 ), and the comparison between CD and CD + BM includes 13 articles ( Gangji et al, 2011 ; Sen et al, 2012 ; Zhao et al, 2012 ; Liu et al, 2013 ; Ma et al, 2014 ; Tabatabaee et al, 2015 ; Pepke et al, 2016 ; Hernigou et al, 2018a ; Hauzeur et al, 2018 ; Kang et al, 2018 ; Nally et al, 2018 ; Martinot et al, 2020b ; Li et al, 2020 ). The flow chart of article selection is shown in Figure 1 .…”