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Systematic Review Indicates There Are Significant Mental Health Benefits From Being Physically Active
The Washington Post (4/24, Searing) reports, “Already known to help ease depression, regular exercise may also help prevent it, with people who exercised just half the recommended weekly amount lowering their risk for depression by 18 percent,” investigators concluded after analyzing “data from 15 studies, involving 191,130 adults who were tracked for at least three years.” Researchers also found that people “who were more active, meeting at least the minimum recommended physical activity level, reduced their risk for depression by 25 percent, compared with inactive people.” The findings of the systematic review and meta-analysis were published online April 13 in JAMA Psychiatry.
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US Adolescents Facing Soaring Rates Of Mental Health Disorders, Research Suggests
In a front-page feature story, the New York Times (4/24, A1, Richtel, Flanagan) reports that American adolescents are facing a new public health threat, that is, “soaring rates of mental health disorders.” For example, in 2019, 13 percent of adolescent Americans “reported having a major depressive episode, a 60 percent increase from 2007.” Additionally, “emergency room visits by children and adolescents in that period also rose sharply for anxiety, mood disorders and self-harm.” Further, suicide rates for people ages 10 to 24, “stable from 2000 to 2007, leaped nearly 60 percent by 2018,” according to the CDC.
NPR (4/24, Rascoe, Narro) interviews Kathleen Ethier, PhD, who “leads the Division of Adolescent and School Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which this month published a survey” indicating “the extent to which the pandemic has been incredibly disruptive for young people and their families.”
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— “‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens ” Matt Richtel, The New York Times, April 24, 2022
Nearly A Quarter Of US COVID-19 Deaths Could Have Been Prevented With Vaccination, Research Shows
A Washington Post (4/21, Bump) analysis says research “from the Peterson Center on Healthcare and Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) quantifies the effects of [COVID-19] vaccination.” The Post adds, “Since June 2021, the point at which every American adult had access to coronavirus vaccines, they estimate that just over 234,000 unvaccinated Americans died who could have lived had they been immunized against the virus,” which is “nearly a quarter of the total death toll from the pandemic.”
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COVID-19 Pandemic, In Combination With Systemic Racism In US, May Be Tied To Elevated Levels Of Postpartum Anxiety, Depression Among Black Mothers, Small Study Suggests
Healio (4/21, Downey) reports, “The COVID-19 pandemic, in combination with systemic racism in the U.S., is associated with elevated levels of postpartum anxiety and depression among Black mothers,” investigators concluded in a study that “followed up with a total of 151 Black participants after their pregnancies between April 17, 2020, and July 8, 2020.” The findings were published online April 13 in JAMA Psychiatry.
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— “Pandemic, racism linked to postpartum anxiety, depression in Black mothers “Ken Downey Jr., Healio, April 21, 2022
Firearm-related deaths leading cause of mortality among youth, researchers say
MedPage Today (4/20, D’Ambrosio) reports, “Gun-related deaths increased significantly among children and adolescents in 2020, becoming the leading cause of mortality among youth, researchers said.” According to the researchers, “the crude rate of firearm-related deaths among individuals ages 1 to 19 years increased by 13.5% from 2019 to 2020, surpassing motor vehicle-related deaths for the first time since 1999.” The findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine also revealed “drug overdoses and poisonings increased by 83.6% among children and adolescents, making it the third leading cause of death for this group.”
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