Table 1. Summary information on the studies excluded from the review.

285 studies were identified. The studies were assessed for inclusion (“assess”) or excluded due to the following reasons; the study was a literature review (“literature review”), the study was not accessible (“not accessible”) due to unobtainable access, the study was in a non-human organism (“non-human”), the study was of another organ to the heart (“not the heart”), the study was of a different cardiovascular disease or healthy individuals (“other CVD”), the study was a duplicate within the same database (“duplicate”), or did not administer taurine (e.g. an association study; “not admin”). Following this, 10/11 PubMed articles were included; 9/11 Cochrane CRTs were included; and 6/8 Web of Science studies were included; most of which were duplicated articles across databases. The remaining articles were excluded for being non-English or inaccessible.

Database	asssess	literature review	not accessible	non-human	not the heart	other CVD	duplicate	not admin	Total
PubMed	11	48	8	31	10	2	0	33	143
Cochrane CRT	11	0	6	0	3	1	1	4	26
BioMed Central	0	3	0	5	3	0	0	5	16
Web of Science	8	31	2	28	7	0	0	24	100
Total	30	82	16	64	23	3	1	66	285