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Model may predict postpartum depression

(AJC.com) UPDATED 2009-09-21

Spanish researchers say a model they've developed to predict a woman's risk of suffering postnatal depression was 80 percent accurate in a recent study. The model looks at such factors as a mother's amount of social support, emotional changes during birth, neuroticism, mutations in certain genes, and family history of psychiatric problems. Among the study's findings were that older women and women who work during their pregnancy appear to have a lower postpartum depression risk. Read full story >

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