Physical Activity Participation Decreases the Risk of Depression in Older Adults: The ATHLOS Population-Based Cohort Study.

"Declarations Ethics Approval and Consent to ParticipateAll the original cohort composing the ATHLOS study received ethical approval. All volunteers signed an informed consent form for participation. Consent for PublicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding The ATHLOS project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant agreement No 635316. This study was funded by the program “Beatriu de Pinós”, Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca, Departament d’Empresa I Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya through the Grant 2020 BP 00085. This study uses data from the Harmonized HRS dataset and Codebook, Version O as of September 2015 developed by the Gateway to Global Aging Data. The development of the Harmonized HRS was funded by the National Institute on Aging (R01AG030153, RC2 AG036619, 1R03AG043052). For more information, please refer to https://g2aging.org/. The HRS is supported by the National Institute on Aging (Grant No. NIA U01AG009740), supplemented by the Social Security Agency and operated from the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan. The RAND HRS data file, the RAND Family data file and the RAND HRS Enhanced Fat Files are the result of cooperation between the NIA, SSA, ISR at the University of Michigan and the RAND Center for the Study of Aging. The KLOSA study is funded by the Korea Employment Information Service (KEIS) and was supported by the Korea Labor Institute’s KLOSA Team. The authors gratefully acknowledge the KEIS who provided data for this study. The SHARE data collection has been funded by the European Commission, DG RTD through FP5 (QLK6-CT-2001-00360), FP6 (SHARE-I3: RII-CT-2006-062193, COMPARE: CIT5-CT-2005-028857, SHARELIFE: CIT4-CT-2006-028812) and FP7 (SHARE-PREP: N211909, SHARE-LEAP: N227822, SHARE M4: N261982). Additional funding from the German Ministry of Education and Research, the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, the US National Institute on Aging (U01_AG09740-13S2, P01_AG005842, P01_AG08291, P30_AG12815, R21_AG025169, Y1-AG-4553-01, IAG_BSR06-11, OGHA_04-064, HHSN271201300071C) and from various national funding sources is gratefully acknowledged (see http://www.share-project.org). Role of the funder/sponsor: The funding organizations had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis and interpretation of the data; preparation, review or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication."