Research
Fitter kids face a lower risk of depression decades later, study suggests
PsyPost · By Eric W. Dolan ·
The Brief
- Children and adolescents with higher aerobic fitness tend to have a lower risk of developing clinical depression by middle age, according to a study in Journal of Affective Disorders.
- The study tracked more than 1,000 Australians over more than three decades.
- The reported findings are associations from a single observational study, so they do not by themselves establish that fitness causes lower depression risk.
Why it matters
The study adds long-term evidence linking youth aerobic fitness to later depression risk, which may inform how researchers and clinicians think about physical activity in early life.
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Children and adolescents with higher aerobic fitness tend to have a lower risk of developing clinical depression by middle age, according to new research published in Journal of Affective Disorders . Tracking more than 1,000 Australians over more than three decades, the study…