“…Table 1 summarizes the characteristics of the 15 eligible studies [24,27,[91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103]. These studies were published between 2014 and 2022, and conducted in China (n = 7) [24,91,93,94,98,101,103], Iran (n = 3) [27,92,100], Turkey (n = 2) [95,99], Iraq (n = 1) [96], India (n = 1) [102], and Ukraine (n = 1) [97]. Of all included studies, four studies were performed using a case-control design [27,92,95,96], and eleven had a cross-sectional design [24,91,93,94,[97][98][99][100][101][102][103].…”