Table 1.

Search terms for the systematic review

Chinese herbal medicine	Chinese herbal medicine [MeSH Term & Keyword] OR Chinese medicine [MeSH Term & Keyword] OR Chinese herb* [Title/Abstract] OR Chinese herbal [Title/Abstract]
AND
Stroke risk factors	High blood pressure	Hypertension [MeSH Term & Keyword] OR Blood pressure [MeSH Terms & Keyword] OR Hypertens* [Title/Abstract] OR Prehypertens* [Title/Abstract] OR Systolic [Title/Abstract] OR Diastolic [Title/Abstract] OR
	High cholesterol	Cholesterol [MeSH Term & Keyword] OR Triglycerides [MeSH Term & Keyword] OR Dyslipidemia [MeSH Term & Keyword] OR Epicholesterol [Title/Abstract] OR HDL [Title/Abstract] OR LDL [Title/Abstract] OR Triglyceride* [Title/Abstract] OR Hyperlipidem* [Title/Abstract] OR Lipidem* [Title/Abstract] OR
	Irregular pulse	Cardiac arrhythmias [MeSH Terms & Keyword] OR Atrial fibrillation [MeSH Terms & Keyword] OR Dysrhythmia* [Title/Abstract] OR Cardiac arrhythmia* [Title/Abstract] OR
	Transient ischaemic attack	Transient ischaemic attack [MeSH Terms & Keyword] OR Transient ischaemic attack* [Title/Abstract] OR
	High blood glucose	Diabetes [MeSH Terms & Keyword] OR Mellitus [MeSH Terms & Keyword] OR Impaired glucose tolerance [MeSH Terms & Keyword] OR Diabet* [Title/Abstract] OR NIDDM [Title/Abstract] OR IDDM [Title/Abstract] OR T2DM [Title/Abstract] OR *insulin* [Title/Abstract] OR Glucose [Title/Abstract] OR
	Overweight	Obesity [MeSH Terms & Keyword] OR Overweight [MeSH Terms & Keyword] OR Metabolic syndrome [MeSH Terms & Keyword] OR Obes* [Title/Abstract] OR Adiposity [Title/Abstract] OR Adipos* [Title/Abstract]

* Truncation, refering to all records that have those letters with any ending