Effects of exercise training on depressive symptoms in patients with chronic heart failure: the HF-ACTION randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Depression is common in patients with cardiac disease, especially in patients with heart failure, and is associated with increased risk of adverse health outcomes. Some evidence suggests that aerobic exercise may reduce depressive symptoms, but to our knowledge the effects of exercise on depression in patients with heart failure have not been evaluated.

Objective

To determine whether exercise training will result in greater improvements in depressive symptoms compared with usual care among patients with heart failure.

Design, setting, and participants

Multicenter, randomized controlled trial involving 2322 stable patients treated for heart failure at 82 medical clinical centers in the United States, Canada, and France. Patients who had a left ventricular eject

SUBMITTER: Blumenthal JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3953459 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature