Luo 2006.

Methods	RCT
Participants	Participants: 84 adults with primary hypertension Age: 36‐68 years Exclusion criteria: people with secondary hypertension; aged below 35 years old; aged over 70 years; women who were pregnant or lactating; people with heart, brain, liver or kidney dysfunction44 Country of publication: China
Interventions	Participants were randomly assigned to control or tai chi Tai chi (n = 44): 24 simplified tai ji quan exercises every day for 45 minutes for 6 months. Also received angiotensin‐converting enzyme inhibitors once daily Control (n = 40): received only angiotensin‐converting enzyme inhibitors for 6 months Follow‐up: 6 months
Outcomes	Blood pressure
Notes	This paper was translated and data abstracted by 1 review author (MS), who spoke Chinese
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Unclear risk	No information provided
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	No information provided
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	No information provided
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	No information provided
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	Used intention‐to‐treat analysis but no other information was provided
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Unclear risk	No information provided
Other bias	Unclear risk	No information provided