Influence of vitamin D on liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the pooled clinical trials data

Figure 2 Flowchart of study selection process. Eighteen hundred and twelve articles were identified using PubMed (n = 468)/EMBASE (n = 1269)/Cochrane (n = 23)/Scopus (n = 42)/LILACS (n = 10) search engines. Detailed evaluation of the articles by at least two independent reviewers (total of three) narrowed the studies to twelve (n = 2521) based upon inclusion and exclusion criteria as listed in Table 1.