TY  - JOUR
T1  - CAusal associations of physical activity/exercise and symptoms of depression and anxiety
AU  - Wolff E, Ströhle A
Y1  - 2010/05/01
N1  - 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.44
JO  - Archives of General Psychiatry
SP  - 540
EP  - 541
VL  - 67
IS  - 5
N2  - 
In their article1 published in August 2008, De Moor and colleagues demonstrated that although regular exercise in the general population is associated with reduced anxiety and depression, this correlation is not a causal effect of exercise, as is often implicitly assumed in population-based studies and has been reported from several clinical studies.2 Using an elegant design with cross-sectional and longitudinal data from monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs, De Moor and colleagues were able to disprove this assumption of causality in a large sample. Instead, they found that there are common genetic factors influencing both exercise behavior and anxious or depressive symptoms.1

SN  - 0003-990X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.44
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.44
ER  -