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Figure 1. Effect of exercise on Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) (A) and Trait-State Anxiety Inventory (TSAI) (B) scores of obese adolescent girls. Within-group pre- and post-treatment data were compared by the Student t-test and between-group data were compared by one-way ANOVA for repeated measures for 10 subjects per group. *P < 0.05 compared to pretreatment.