Thursday, November 1, 2007

Use of Antidepressants in Pregnancy Affects Neonatal Outcomes: Presented at AACAP

Babies born to mothers who take antidepressant medication during pregnancy have high levels of cortisol in cord-blood at birth, and their mothers are more likely to experience delivery complications, according to a study presented here at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP).

When examined at 2 weeks of age, the infants of women taking antidepressants demonstrated more tremulousness and were more excitable than infants born to women not taking antidepressants.

The study results were presented by lead author Sheila Marcus, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Depression Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, on October 24.

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