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Xu P, Huang Y, Hou Q, Cheng J, Ren Z, Ye R, Yao Z, Chen J, Lin Z, Gao Y, Chen Y. Relationship between physical activity and mental health in a national representative cross-section study: Its variations according to obesity and comorbidity. J Affect Disord 2022; 308:484-493. [PMID: 35439463 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.04.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Revised: 03/11/2022] [Accepted: 04/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Physical activity is positively associated with mental health in obese people with chronic comorbidities. However, how physical activity types (PATs), physical activity frequency (PAF), and physical activity duration (PAD) are associated with mental health need to be further clarified. The current study investigated and compared the effectiveness of PATs, physical activity frequency PAF and PAD for mental health in obese people with various chronic comorbid conditions. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 871,919 adults who participated in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). They were divided into four groups: healthy people, obese people with 0, 1, and 2+ chronic comorbid conditions. The zero-inflated negative binomial (ZINB) regression model and the generalized additive model were used to explore the association between physical activity and mental health burden in the four groups, respectively. RESULTS Jogging (30.00%), hiking (28.36%) and bicycling (28.32%) have greater improvement in mental health of healthy people; jogging (19.25%), golf (19.95%) and bicycling machine exercise (19.13%) showed a greater improvement in mental health of obese people with no chronic comorbid condition; and aerobic exercise videos or class showed a greater improvement in mental health of obese people with one chronic comorbid condition (22.14%) and obese people with two or more chronic comorbid conditions (19.60%). Non-linear relationships were observed between PAF, PAD, and energy expenditure and mental health. The healthy participants who exercised about 10-15 times a month and 40-50 min per session or about 400-600 METs-min per week had greater benefits for mental health. However, the lowest point of the smooth curve moved to the left with an increasing number of chronic comorbid conditions in obese people. CONCLUSIONS Almost all PATs were associated with better mental health, but their benefits decreased with increasing number of chronic comorbid conditions in obese people. There were U-shaped relationships between mental health and weekly physical activity frequency, duration, and METs-min.
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- Peng Xu
- Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510220, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510220, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510220, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510220, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510220, China
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- Department of Medical Statistics, School of Basic Medicine and Public Health, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Medical Statistics, School of Basic Medicine and Public Health, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Medical Statistics, School of Basic Medicine and Public Health, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Medical Statistics, School of Basic Medicine and Public Health, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China; Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, One Park Ave, New York, NY 10016, United States.
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- Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou 510220, China; Department of Medical Statistics, School of Basic Medicine and Public Health, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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- School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, K1G5Z3, Canada
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Huang L, Huang G, Ding Q, Liang P, Hu C, Zhang H, Zhan L, Wang Q, Cao Y, Zhang J, Shen W, Jia X, Xing W. Amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) alterations in adults with subthreshold depression after physical exercise: A resting-state fMRI study. J Affect Disord 2021; 295:1057-1065. [PMID: 34706414 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.08.094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2021] [Revised: 08/04/2021] [Accepted: 08/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Physical exercise has been proved to reduce the risk of major depression in Subthreshold depression (StD) individuals effectively, yet little is known about the spontaneous brain activity changes associated with physical exercise. METHODS A total of 70 adult subjects, including 38 StD and 32 healthy control (HC) subjects, underwent a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) before and after eight-week aerobic exercise respectively. Then, the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) alterations between the two groups were quantitatively analyzed. RESULTS Before exercise intervention, the rs-fMRI data showed increased ALFF of the right putamen in the StD group compared with HC group. After exercise intervention, there was no significant ALFF change observed between the StD and HC groups. The longitudinal ALFF differences from pre- to post- exercise intervention showed significantly decreased ALFF in the right middle and inferior occipital gyrus, right middle and inferior temporal gyrus, right fusiform gyrus (FG), while increased ALFF in the right middle cingulate, right superior parietal louble, right inferior parietal lobule (IPL) (inferior parietal gyrus and supramarginal gyrus), and bilateral precuneus in the StD group. As for HC group, the results showed that decreased ALFF in the right FG and right parahippocampus, while increased ALFF in the right precuneus, right middle cingulate, right supplementary motor area, right superior parietal lobule and right paracentral lobule in the HC group. No significant correlation between changes of ALFF and clinical scale scores in the StD group. LIMITATIONS The definitions of StD are varied in terms of different studies, the final sample size was relatively small, and the age range of the subjects in this study was narrow. Meanwhile, the exercise intervention trial was short-term. CONCLUSIONS These results further support the standpoint that physical exercise has the potential to reshape the abnormal patterns of spontaneous brain activity in adults with StD.
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- Lina Huang
- Department of Radiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China; Department of Radiology, Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Xuzhou Medical University, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Information and Electronics Technology, Jiamusi University, Jiamusi, Heilongjian, China
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- Department of Radiology, Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Xuzhou Medical University, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Radiology, Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Xuzhou Medical University, Jiangsu, China; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Soochow, Jiangsu, Chna
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- Department of Radiology, Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Xuzhou Medical University, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Western Language, Heilongjiang University, Heilongjiang, China
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- School of Teacher Education, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Jiamusi University, Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Changshu Third People's Hospital, Changshu, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Radiology, Changshu Hospital Affiliated to Xuzhou Medical University, Jiangsu, China
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- Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders, Institutes of Psychological Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China.
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