Methods	RCT of 2 years duration
Participants	197 patients admitted to hospital for acute MI, unstable angina pectoris or after coronary artery bypass grafting. 82.2% male. Mean age: 55 years n=98 for intervention group and n=99 for usual care group.
Interventions	EX: lifestyles intervention program (low fat diet, regular exercise, smoking cessation, psychosocial support and education, delivered by nurses on the rationale for pharmacological and lifestyle measures) Usual care
Outcomes	Total mortality
Notes
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors’ judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Unclear risk	ȁrandomised’
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Low risk	‘[Randomization] was performed with pre-prepared sealed opaque envelopes containing details on group allocation. The patients opened the envelopes themselves so that their allocation to IP or UC was revealed to them without the prior knowledge of the study investigators’
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	17.8 % lost to follow up, no description of withdrawals or dropouts
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Unclear risk	No information reported.