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Here, objectively-measured moderate and vigorous physical activity were found to be associated with lower risk of affective disorders, including depression and anxiety.

- A higher level of physical activity was associated with lower risk of affective disorders up to 500 min of moderate and 120 min of vigorous physical activity per week.

- At an equivalent amount of time, vigorous physical activity was associated with lower risk of affective disorders than moderate physical activity.

- However, the potential benefits of moderate physical activity seemed to continue to accrue even after achieving the current physical activity recommendations.

- Only 5.2% of all the affective disorders, including depression and anxiety, could be attributable to not achieving the recommendation of moderate physical activity, but 16.5% could be attributable to that of vigorous physical activity.

This is largely due to the substantially different distributions of moderate and vigorous physical activity.

A large majority (95.9%) of study participants fulfilled the WHO recommendation of ≥150 min of moderate , but only 9.6% of the participants had ≥75 min of vigorous physical activity.

- "It is also worth to note that more affective disorders could have been prevented if more participants could perform more MPA than the current recommendations."

Device-measured physical activity and incident affective disorders (open access)

doi.org/10.1186/s12916…

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