TY  - JOUR
T1  - PHysical activity to combat depression in chronic heart failure—reply
AU  - Blumenthal JA, Babyak MA, Whellan DJ
Y1  - 2012/11/07
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.14098
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1738
EP  - 1739
VL  - 308
IS  - 17
N2  - 
Because blacks may respond differently to various cardiac medications, Sossai and Sponga suggest that we examine the response of blacks to the exercise intervention. This suggestion is especially relevant because depression may be less likely to be recognized in blacks,2 and is even less likely to be treated.3 However, the absence of a treatment group × race interaction for BDI-II scores in the HF-ACTION trial suggests that blacks responded to exercise in a similar manner compared with their white counterparts. We plan to examine this issue in greater detail in a subsequent report.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.14098
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.14098
ER  -