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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 13.
Published in final edited form as: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011 Jul 6;(7):CD001800. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001800.pub2
Methods Randomised controlled trial with follow-up of 24 months.
Participants 28 postmenopausal women with coronary heart disease, defined as atherosclerosis, MI, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, and/or coronary bypass graft surgery.
Mean age: 64 years
Interventions Randomised to PrimeTime program (very low-fat vegetarian diet, stress-management training, exercise, group support, and smoking cessation) or to usual care n=17 for PrimeTime program and n=11 for usual care
Outcomes health-related quality of life: SF-36 at 24 months
Notes
Risk of bias
Bias Authors’ judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk “randomized”
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not reported
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
All outcomes
Unclear risk Unclear in terms of assessment of outcomes.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes
High risk 3/28 (10.7%) patients lost to follow-up, no description of withdrawals or dropouts
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk No information reported.