Effects of Endurance Exercise Modalities on Arterial Stiffness in Patients Suffering from Unipolar Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Hanssen, Henner; Minghetti, Alice; Faude, Oliver; Schmidt‐Trucksäss, Arno; Zahner, Lukas; Beck, Johannes; Donath, Lars

doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00311

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“…Previously published findings from our research group suggest that similar improvements occur in cardiorespiratory fitness (VO 2 max), cardiovascular health markers (blood pressure, arterial stiffness), and depressive symptomatology in patients with MDD who participated in 12 sessions of SIT or CAT (23, 24). These promising findings notwithstanding, some scholars doubt whether HIIT or SIT are appropriate training protocols for largely physically inactive populations (25, 26).…”

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Sprint Interval Training and Continuous Aerobic Exercise Training Have Similar Effects on Exercise Motivation and Affective Responses to Exercise in Patients With Major Depressive Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Background: Sprint interval training (SIT) has become increasingly popular and is seen as a promising exercise strategy to increase fitness in healthy people. Nevertheless, some scholars doubt the appropriateness of a SIT training protocol for largely physically inactive populations. SIT might be too arduous, and therefore contribute to feelings of incompetence, failure, and lower self-esteem, which may undermine participants' exercise motivation. Therefore, we examined whether participation in 12 SIT sessions would lead to different changes in self-determined motivation, affective responses to exercise, cardiorespiratory fitness, physical activity, and depressive symptom severity compared to aerobic exercise training (CAT) in a sample of patients with major depressive disorders (MDD).Methods: Two groups of 25 patients (39 women, 11 men) with unipolar depression were randomly assigned to the SIT or CAT condition (M = 36.4 years, SD = 11.3). Data were assessed at baseline and post-intervention (three weekly 35-min sessions of SIT/CAT over a 4-week period). Self-determined exercise motivation was assessed with a 12-item self-rating questionnaire, affective valence was assessed in each session, prior, during, and after the exercise training using the Feeling Scale (FS). Cardiovascular fitness was measured with a maximal bicycle ergometer test, self-perceived fitness with a 1-item rating scale, physical activity with the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ-SF), and depressive symptom severity with the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDi-II).Results: The SIT and CAT groups did not differ with regard to their changes in self-determined motivation from baseline to post-intervention. Participants in the SIT and CAT group showed similar (positive) affective responses during and after the training sessions. Cardiorespiratory fitness, self-perceived fitness and depressive symptom severity similarly improved in the SIT and CAT group. Finally, significant increases were observed in self-reported physical activity from baseline to post-intervention. However, these increases were larger in the CAT compared to the SIT group.Conclusion: From a motivational point of view, SIT seems just as suited as CAT in the treatment of patients with MDD. This is a promising finding because according to self-determination theory, it seems advantageous for patients to choose between different exercise therapy regimes, and for their preferences with regard to exercise type and intensity to be considered.

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Sprint Interval Training and Continuous Aerobic Exercise Training Have Similar Effects on Exercise Motivation and Affective Responses to Exercise in Patients With Major Depressive Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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“…Exercise training regimes have also been shown to reduce depression symptoms and improve CV risk factors in patients with major depression [106,107]. A random effects meta-analysis of 25 RCTs (n=1,487 people with depression) showed that exercise interventions produced an overall large antidepressant effect, even after adjusting for publication bias (SMD=1.1, 95% CI=0.79, 1.43) [108].…”

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How Does Mental Health Impact Women's Heart Health?

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Murphy

2021

Heart, Lung and Circulation

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From adolescence until old age, women are more vulnerable to common mental disorders (CMDs; depression and anxiety) than men at all stages of the life course. By middle age, women who have clinical depression are at twice the risk of having an incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) than those without. This has important implications for the way we prevent, identify and treat both CMDs and coronary heart disease in women. In this paper, we discuss the various genetic, biological, ethnic/racial, and psychological pathways by which women's vulnerability to CMDs elevate their CVD risk and recovery from a cardiac event. We review the evidence from trials that have, to date, failed to show that treating depression can reduce or delay the onset or recurrence of CVD events, especially for female patients. We discuss the value of lifestyle-based therapies for treating depression, to which women may be more responsive, and finish by discussing how population-based approaches including risk factor assessment could be tailored to consider these factors.

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“…Helgadttir et al 31 found that the Montgomery and Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) scores of depressive patients (18‐67 years) were significantly lower after low‐intensity aerobic exercise compared with moderate‐ or high‐intensity aerobic exercises (three times a week for 12 weeks); therefore, the author believed that moderate‐ and high‐intensity aerobic exercises are more effective than the low‐intensity one. Another study reported on short‐term (4 weeks, three times a week), high‐intensity (80% VO 2max ), and low‐intensity (60% VO 2max ) bicycling exercises in patients with unipolar depression, and found that the Beck Depression Inventory‐II (BDI‐II) score was decreased by 85% after high‐intensity exercise 32 . Trivedi et al 33 explored the effects of 12‐week high‐intensity walking (16 kcal/kg/wk) and low‐intensity walking (4 kcal/kg/wk) on depression, and the Hamilton Depression Scale (HDRS) showed that both of them achieved significant improvement in depression ( P < .001), and intensive exercise was more conducive to reducing depression levels.…”

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Exercise, brain plasticity, and depression

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Depression is a common mental disorder characterized by high incidence, high disability, and high fatality, causing great burden to the society, families, and individuals. The changes in brain plasticity may be a main reason for depression. Recent studies have shown that exercise plays a positive role in depression, but systematic and comprehensive studies are lacking on brain plasticity changes in depression. To further understand the antidepressive effect of exercise and the changes in brain plasticity, we retrieved related literatures using key words “depression,” “depressive disorder,” “exercise,” “brain plasticity,” “brain structure,” and “brain function” from the database of Web of Science, PubMed, EBSCO host, and CNKI, hoping to provide evidence for exercise in preventing and treating depression. Increase in exercise has been found negatively correlated with the risk of depression. Randomized controlled experiments have shown that aerobic exercise, resistance exercise, and mind‐body exercise can improve depressive symptoms and levels. The intensity and long‐term effect of exercise are now topical research issues. Exercise has been proven to reshape the brain structure of depression patients, activate the function of related brain areas, promote behavioral adaptation changes, and maintain the integrity of hippocampal and white matter volume, thus improving the brain neuroprocessing and delaying cognitive degradation in depression patients. Future studies are urgently needed to establish accurate exercise prescriptions for improving depressive symptoms, and studies on different depressive populations and studies using multimodal brain imaging combined with multiple analytical methods are also needed.

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Effects of Endurance Exercise Modalities on Arterial Stiffness in Patients Suffering from Unipolar Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Cited by 24 publications

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Sprint Interval Training and Continuous Aerobic Exercise Training Have Similar Effects on Exercise Motivation and Affective Responses to Exercise in Patients With Major Depressive Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Sprint Interval Training and Continuous Aerobic Exercise Training Have Similar Effects on Exercise Motivation and Affective Responses to Exercise in Patients With Major Depressive Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial

How Does Mental Health Impact Women's Heart Health?

Exercise, brain plasticity, and depression

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