Depression Symptom Severity and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Healthy and Depressed Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Sports Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 219-230

  Papasavvas, Theodoros ^a,b   Bonow, Robert O ^c   Alhashemi, Mohammad ^a   Micklewright, Dominic ^b  

^a HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PUBLISHING;

ADULT; CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PUBLICATION BIAS;

EID: 84955703431     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40279-015-0409-5     Document Type: Review

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