Methods	see Gordon2002-Commun
Participants
Interventions
Outcomes
Follow up
Subgroup analyses
Country & settings
Notes
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors’ judgement	Support for judgement
Adequate sequence generation?	Unclear risk	Not reported
Allocation concealment?	Unclear risk	Not reported
Blinding? All outcomes	Unclear risk	Not reported
Incomplete outcome data addressed? All outcomes	Low risk	Data for 142 pts who completed exercise testing at baseline and at follow up (not all 155 pts randomised) reported only; numbers of dropouts reported and reasons described
Free of selective reporting?	Low risk	All outcomes mentioned in methods are reported in results
Groups balanced at baseline?	Low risk	“Randomization did not result in statistical significant differences among patients assigned to the3 interventions. ”
Intention to treat analysis?	Unclear risk	Not reported
Groups received same intervention?	Low risk