Association Between Physical Activity and Risk of Depression

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Importance: Depression is the leading cause of mental health-related disease burden and may be reduced by physical activity, but the dose-response relationship between activity and depression is uncertain. Conclusions and Relevance: This systematic review and meta-analysis of associations between physical activity and depression suggests significant mental health benefits from being physically active, even at levels below the public health recommendations.

🔑 Key Findings

• Objective: To systematically review and meta-analyze the dose-response association between physical activity and incident depression from published prospective studies of adults.
• Data Sources: PubMed, SCOPUS, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and the reference lists of systematic reviews retrieved by a systematic search up to December 11, 2020, with no language limits.
• The date of the search was November 12, 2020.

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