Researchers analyzed pregnant women in the BASIC cohort to determine whether certain lifestyle and background characteristics are linked to an increased risk of developing depression at a specific stage of the perinatal period.
Identifying environmental factors that reduce the risk of suicidal behavior is crucial.
Modestly obese women who were educated were almost twice as likely to have depression than their normal-weight peers.
Stillbirth is associated with suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety and other manifestations of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Study is the first to compare suicide risk of new mothers with postpartum disorder to other categories of women.
Risk up with exposure to serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors in late pregnancy.
Increased risk of obesity seen during childhood and young adulthood for female, but not males.
A clinician should also rule out the possibility that the dysfunction stems from a co-occurring medical or psychiatric condition, or substance abuse.
Researchers find no cognitive benefits from raloxifene in women with mild to moderate dementia.
A case study involving a 38-year-old woman with a history of ADHD seeks counseling for treatment of the condition during a pregnancy.
