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Article: STUDY URGES PREGNANCY DEPRESSION MONITORING; RESEARCHER URGES PREGNANT WOMEN TO BE CANDID WITH DOCTORS ABOUT DEPRESSION.(CNY)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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Byline: Paige Parker Newhouse News Service
About 15 percent of women experience depression sometime before, during or after pregnancy, researchers from the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research report. They urge doctors to more closely monitor pregnant patients with a history of the condition.
Kaiser's study of 4,398 women in western Oregon and Washington state found that about 54 percent of those who experienced postpartum depression also had a depression diagnosis either during or before pregnancy. The study looked at women over the 39 weeks before they became pregnant through the 39 weeks following delivery. Its findings are reported in The ...