We would like to thank Drs Pluijmers and Denollet for acknowledging the importance of our findings about the complex
relationship between depression and Type D personality. We also support their theory that this association could be
explained by dysregulations of the neuroendocrine, autonomic nervous, and immune systems as was found in several
studies.
On behalf of all authors,
R.T. van Domburg
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