Table 1.

Search strategies

Database	Number	Search items
PubMed	#1	(Title/Abstract) (‘Tai Chi’ OR ‘Tai ji’ OR ‘Tai Chi Chih’ OR ‘Ta’i chi’ OR ‘taichi’ OR ‘tai chi chuan’ OR ‘taichi chuan’ OR ‘taiji’ OR ‘Tai Ji Quan’ OR ‘taijiquan’ OR ‘martial arts’)
	#2	(Title/Abstract) (‘cardiovascular disease’ OR ‘coronary heart disease’ OR ‘stroke’ OR ‘heart failure’ OR ‘hypertension’ OR ‘high blood pressure’ OR ‘diabetes’ OR ‘dyslipidaemia’ OR ‘high cholesterol’)
	#3	(All fields) (‘randomized controlled trial’ OR ‘randomised controlled trial’ OR ‘controlled clinical trial’ OR ‘randomly’ OR ‘clinical’ OR ‘trial’ OR ‘random’ OR ‘randomised’ OR ‘randomized’)
	#4	#1 and #2 and 3#
CNKI	#1	(Abstract) (‘Tai_ji’ (Tai Chi) OR ‘Tai_ji_quan’ (Tai Chi)
	#2	(Abstract) (‘Xin_xue_guan_bing’ (cardiovascular disease) OR ‘Guan_xin_bing’ (coronary heart disease) OR ‘Zhong_feng’ (stroke) OR ‘Nao_zu_zhong) (stroke) OR ‘Xin_Shuai’ (heart failure) OR ‘Gao_xue_ya’ (hypertension) OR ‘Tang_niao_bing’ (diabetes) OR ‘Gao_xue_zhi’ (dyslipidaemia))
	#3	(All fields) (‘sui_ji’ (randomized or randomised))
	#4	#1 and #2 and 3#

CNKI, China National Knowledge Infrastructure.