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Exercise reduces long-term risk of anxiety disorders in men and women, study finds - Fox News

Exercise reduces long-term risk of anxiety disorders in men and women, study finds - Fox News

Exercise reduces long-term risk of anxiety disorders in men and women, study finds - Fox News
Sep 13, 2021 1 min, 9 secs

A physically active lifestyle was associated with a 62% lower risk of anxiety disorder diagnoses among men and women in a study with the largest population size to date, researchers said.

While exercise is known to lower disease risk, boost aerobic fitness and improve sleep, cognition and mental health, among other benefits, per the CDC, researchers at hand said the impact of exercise intensity, dose and fitness level on the development of anxiety disorders was otherwise unknown.

To conduct the study, researchers drew data on psychiatric and other diagnoses from the Swedish National Patient Registry and excluded individuals with severe disease to lessen the bias of their inability to participate, while also analyzing race completion times to assess the impact of physical fitness and extreme exercise doses on anxiety disorders.

"We found that having a physically active lifestyle (being a skier) is associated with around 60% lower risk of developing anxiety disorders compared to matched individuals from the general population in an observational study following almost 400,000 individuals for up to 21 years," the study reads.

"Our study offers new knowledge about how a physically active lifestyle may affect the development of anxiety disorders in both men and women," researchers wrote, noting prior findings didn’t include women.

"Importantly, the cumulative incidence of anxiety disorders among fast skiing women was still lower than that of the matched non-skiing females from the general population," the study reads

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