American Heart Association national board and committee member, Ileana L. Piña, M.D., MPH, FAHA, FACC, is professor of Medicine Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, Clinical professor of Medicine, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
Offering perspective on AHA Scientific Sessions 2020 Presentation 316 
copyright American Heart Association 2020

"I think this is a good study because it shows behavioral interventions, and I'm always interested in behavioral interventions. And they didn't do anything fancy, they had some in-person interviews, and they had some online, and then they had some phone calls. So they sort of planted the ideas and then reinforced them, I think with the online, and then with the telephone, and they were successful. I mean they really did reduce the sedentary time, which is awful, and it's awful in Hispanic women. I never remember my mother ever exercising, which I do regularly, but it was just not in her program, she just didn't do it. That's something my father would have done, not her."