Study	Reason for exclusion
CIMT Trial	The intervention was not PPAR‐γ agonist.
Erdmann 2015	The participants were not eligible.
Forst 2008	There was no subgroup of stroke patients for whom separate results were available.
Hedblad 2007	The participants were not eligible.
ISRCTN54951661	The participants were not eligible.
Koshiyama 2001	The participants were not eligible.
Lincoff 2014	The participants were not eligible.
Meisner 2006	The participants were not eligible.
NCT00879970	There was no subgroup of stroke patients for whom separate results were available.
Sidhu 2004	The participants were not eligible.
Tanaka 2015	There was no placebo for comparison.
TART	The participants were not eligible.
TRIPOD	The participants were not eligible.
Varghese 2009	The participants were not eligible.

PPAR‐γ: peroxisome proliferator‐activated receptor gamma