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A meta‐review of “lifestyle psychiatry”: the role of exercise, smoking, diet and sleep in the prevention and treatment of mental disorders

Joseph Firth, Marco Solmi, Robyn E. Wootton, Davy Vancampfort, Felipe Barreto Schuch, Erin Hoare, Simon Gilbody, John Torous, Scott Teasdale, Sarah E. Jackson, Lee Smith, Melissa Eaton, Felice N. Jacka, Nicola Veronese, Wolfgang Marx, Garcia Ashdown‐Franks, Dan Siskind, Jerome Sarris, Simon Rosenbaum, André F. Carvalho, Brendon Stubbs

World Psychiatry · 2020

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Summary

There is increasing academic and clinical interest in how "lifestyle factors" traditionally associated with physical health may also relate to mental health and psychological well-being. In response, international and national health bodies are producing guidelines to address health behaviors in the prevention and treatment of mental illness. However, the current evidence for the causal role of lifestyle factors in the onset and prognosis of mental disorders is unclear. We performed a systematic meta-review of the top-tier evidence examining how physical activity, sleep, dietary patterns and tobacco smoking impact on the risk and treatment outcomes across a range of mental disorders. Results from 29 meta-analyses of prospective/cohort studies, 12 Mendelian randomization studies, two meta-r

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1002/wps.20773
Catalogue ID
SNmoj7ntqi-05k2sk
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