Women with no prior history of affective disorder are at an increased risk of developing Postpartum affective disorder (AD) after their first birth.
More than 1 in 200 women who had no prior history of psychiatric episodes are affected with Postpartum affective disorder (AD). These women were found to be at an increased risk of later affective disorder, reveals a new study. The new //study was published in PLOS Medicine by Marie-Louise Rasmussen from Statens Serum Institut, Denmark, and colleagues.//
‘Women with no prior history of Postpartum affective disorder (AD) are at an increased risk after their first birth.’
Postpartum depression (PPD) is estimated to affect more than 5 percent of all women following childbirth, making it the most common postnatal complication of childbearing.In the new study, researchers analyzed data from the Danish national registries on 457,317 women who had a first child (and subsequent births) between 1996 and 2013 and had no prior psychiatric hospital contacts or use of antidepressants.
Postpartum AD was defined as an antidepressant prescription fill or hospital contact for depression within six months after birth. In the Danish cohort, 0.6 percent of all childbirths among women with no history of psychiatric disease led to postpartum AD.
A year after their first treatment, 27.9 percent of these women were still in treatment; after four years, that number was 5.4 percent.
For women with a hospital contact for depression after a first birth, the risk of postpartum AD recurrence was 21 percent; the recurrence was 15 percent for women who took antidepressants after a first birth.
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"These population-based figures provide valuable guidance to physicians treating women with PPD," the authors say.
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Source-Eurekalert