Study	Reason for exclusion
Butterworth 1998	Nonrandomised study assessing sodium nitroprusside in acute IS
El Mously 2014	Case‐control study
El‐Zammer 2012	Not randomised or controlled
FAST‐BP 2013	Not randomised or controlled (ongoing)
Flinders 2014	Nonrandomised study as part of Field Administration of Stroke Therapy‐Magnesium (FAST‐MAG) clinical trial
Kate 2015	Nonrandomised, controlled study assessing treatment with sublingual nitroglycerin +/‐ intravenous labetalol depending on baseline systolic BP on CBF
Kerr 2000	Unable to obtain published or unpublished data
MAPAS 2009	Non‐controlled, target‐based study (ongoing)
Nakamura 2010	Head‐to‐head comparison study comparing perindopril vs candesartan vs conventional therapy (including nitrates)
PATICH 2014	Target‐based study (ongoing)
PATIS 2009	Non‐randomised, target‐based study (ongoing)
Roitberg 2008	Confounded randomised controlled trial of nicardipine versus sodium nitroprusside in ICH and subarachnoid haemorrhage
Sakamoto 2015	Not randomised or controlled
Sanossian 2012	Nonrandomised study as part of FAST‐MAG clinical trial
Suri 2009	Retrospective study on the use of nicardipine or sodium nitroprusside in ICH
Xu 2007	Assessing vertebrobasilar insufficiency, not acute stroke

CBF: cerebral blood flow
 ICH: intracerebral haemorrhage
 IS: ischaemic stroke
 SBP: systolic blood pressure
 vs: versus