Study	Reason for exclusion
Bailey 2018	Compares people with AAA versus healthy adults.
Barakat 2014	No control group; therefore single arm and not eligible.
Gunasekera 2014	Describes participant recruitment and experiences.
Hayashi 2016	Not an RCT.
Lo Sapio 2014	Compares the effects of two different preoperative cardiac work‐up strategies.
Myers 2010	Outcomes pre‐surgery.
Myers 2014	Outcomes pre‐surgery.
NCT00349947	Outcome is growth rate of AAAs.
NCT01234610	Outcomes measured pre‐surgery.
NCT02097186	Intervention is ischaemic preconditioning.
NCT02292927	Not an RCT.
NCT02767518	People with thoracic aneurysm.
NCT02997618	Peak VO2 as measured by CPET.
NCT03985202	Not an RCT.
Takeuchi 2016	Thoracic aortic disease.
Tew 2012	Outcomes measured pre‐surgery.
UMIN000028237	Not an RCT.

AAA: abdominal aortic aneurysm
CPET: cardiopulmonary exercise testing
RCT: randomised controlled trial
Peak VO2: peak oxygen uptake