(Press-News.org) Exercise may reduce postpartum depression, with moderate intensity exercises three to four times a week being especially effective, per meta-analysis
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287650
Article Title: Effectiveness of aerobic exercise in the prevention and treatment of postpartum depression: Meta-analysis and network meta-analysis
Author Countries: China
Funding: This work was financially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in China (Grant no. CUG150607). The funders did not play a role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Exercise may reduce postpartum depression, with moderate intensity exercises three to four times a week being especially effective, per meta-analysis
2023-11-29
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