“…Nine articles were excluded after careful reading, since they did not meet the eligibility criteria. Finally, 19 studies [ 12 , 16 , 19 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 ] were included in the systematic review (SR) and one of them was excluded for the quantitative analysis, so the meta-analysis is based on 18 articles [ 12 , 16 , 19 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 ]. The reasons for exclusion are reported in Table 2 .…”