Exercise for late-life depression? It depends
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Physical exercise for late-life major depression.
BACKGROUND Interventions including physical exercise may help improve the outcomes of late-life major depression, but few studies are available. AIMS To investigate whether augmenting sertraline therapy with physical exercise leads to better outcomes of late-life major depression. METHOD Primary care patients (465 years) with major depression were randomised to 24 weeks of higher-intensity,...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(13)60860-0