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Table 2 Risk of bias summary

From: Effect of uric acid-lowering therapy on renal function in patients with chronic kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Study

Random sequence generation

Allocation concealment

Blinding of participants and personnel

Blinding of outcome assessment

Incomplete outcome data

Selective reporting

Other bias

Siu 2006

Low

Unclear

High

Unclear

Low

Unclear

Low

Goicoechea 2010

Low

Unclear

High

Low

Low

Unclear

Low

Sircar 2015

Low

Low

Low

Unclear

High

Low

Low

Saag 2016

Unclear

Unclear

Low

Unclear

High

Unclear

Low

Schumacher 2008

Unclear

Unclear

Unclear

Unclear

High

Unclear

Low

Hosoya 2014

Low

Unclear

Unclear

Unclear

Low

Low

Low

Golmohammadi 2017

Unclear

Unclear

Unclear

Unclear

Unclear

Unclear

Low

Gunawardhana 2018

Low

Unclear

Low

Unclear

High

Unclear

Low

Saag 2019

Low

Unclear

Low

Unclear

High

Low

Low

Mukri 2018

Low

Unclear

High

Unclear

Low

Unclear

Low

Kimura 2018

Low

Unclear

Unclear

Unclear

Low

Low

Low