Study	Reason for exclusion
Agren 1989	Improper method of randomisation (based on date of birth).
Andersson 2010	Comparator received exercise.
Aronov 2006	No useful outcome data reported.
Asbury 2012	Follow up only 16 weeks.
Astengo 2010	No outcomes of interest reported.
Ballantyne 1982	No useful outcome data reported
Belardinelli 2007	Abstract only with incomplete reporting of study characteristics and outcome data. Full trial report not published.
Bilinska 2010	Follow up only 6 weeks.
Bilinska 2013	Follow up only 6 weeks.
Björntorp 1972	Not a randomised study ‐ participants divided alternately after admission.
Blumenthal 1997	Control group was not randomised, but selected on geographical basis.
Bourke 2010	Trial terminated early due to poor recruitment.
Bubnova 2014	No outcomes of interest reported.
Busch 2012	Comparator received exercise.
Butler 2009	Participants had already received rehabilitation.
Bär 1992	Method of randomisation was inadequate; of a study population of 265 across 5 centres only one centre randomised their patients, leaving a control group of 50 and an intervention group of 215.
Carlsson 1997	No useful outcome data reported.
Chang 2010	No outcomes of interest reported.
Chatian 2014	No outcomes of interest reported and follow up only 3 months.
Chow 2012	Intervention does not contain exercise.
Edstrom‐Pluss 2009	Comparator received exercise.
Espinosa 2004	Not an RCT.
Gao 2007	No useful outcome data reported. Duration of follow‐up not reported.
Ghashghaei 2012	Not an RCT.
Giallauria 2009	No outcomes of interest.
Giallauria 2012	No outcomes of interest.
Giallauria 2013	No outcomes of interest.
Giannuzzi 2008	All patients (treatment and control) participated in 3 to 6 week cardiac rehabilitation programme (including supervised exercise sessions) prior to randomisation. Control group was not "usual care".
Gielen 2003	No useful outcome data reported.
Ha 2011	Not an RCT.
Haddadzadeh 2011	Follow up only 12 weeks.
Hansen 2009	Not an RCT.
Hansen 2010	Not an RCT.
Hanssen 2009	Intervention does not contain exercise.
Hawkes 2009	Intervention does not contain exercise.
Heldal 2000	No useful outcome data reported.
Houle 2011	No outcomes of interest.
Huerre 2010	Not an RCT.
Jiang 2007	No useful outcome data reported
Karpova 2009	Not an RCT.
Kavanagh 1973	No outcomes of interest.
Kentala 1972	Not an RCT.
Kim 2011	Not an RCT.
Kim 2012	Not an RCT.
Kim 2013	Not an RCT.
Krachler 1997	No useful outcome data reported.
Kubilius 2012	Not an RCT.
Lee 2013	Not an RCT.
Li 2004	Follow up < 6 months.
Liao 2003	Follow‐up too short (3 to 4 weeks) and no useful outcome data reported.
Lie 2009	Intervention does not contain exercise.
Mameletzi 2011	No outcomes of interest.
Mandic 2013	Not an RCT.
Martinez 2011	No outcomes of interest.
Mayer‐Berger 2014	Comparator received exercise.
Mezey 2008	Not an RCT.
Mohammed 2012	No outcomes of interest.
Moholdt 2012a	Comparator received exercise.
Moholdt 2012b	Comparator received exercise.
Molino‐Lova 2013	Participants had already received rehabilitation.
Murphy 2012	Partcipants did not have CHD.
Pater 2000	Authors did not respond to repeated requests for study update.
Pedersen 2013	Comparator received exercise.
Peschel 2007	No useful outcome data reported.
Piestrzeniewicz 2004	No useful outcome data reported.
Pluss 2011	Comparator received exercise.
Poortaghi 2011	No outcomes of interest.
Poortaghi 2013	Comparator received exercise.
Ribeiro 2012	Follow up only 8 weeks.
Rideout 2012	Intervention does not contain exercise.
Roviaro 1984	Not an RCT.
Sadeghi 2013	Follow up only 8 weeks.
Sagar 2012	Comparator received exercise.
Sato 2010	No outcomes of interest.
Sawatzky 2014	Follow up only 3 months.
Schumacher 2006	No useful outcome data reported.
Schwaab 2011	Not an RCT.
Shabani 2010	Follow up only 12 weeks.
Shikhova 2010	Not an RCT.
Siqueira‐Catania 2013	Participants did not have CHD.
Soleimannejad 2014	No outcomes of interest.
Stahle 1999	Follow up only 3 months.
Stenlund 2005	No useful outcome data reported.
Takeyama 2000	No useful outcome data reported.
Tokmakidis 2003	No useful outcome data reported.
Turkstra 2013	Intervention does not contain exercise.
Uhlemann 2012	Comparator received exercise.
Walters 2010	Comparator received exercise.
Wood 2008	No outcomes of interest.
Wosornu 1996	No useful outcome data reported.
Yonezawa 2009	Not an RCT.
Zheng 2008	No useful outcome data reported.
Zhu 2013	Intervention does not include exercise.