A new article from the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Women’s Mental Health reports on the risk of miscarriages (characterized by their medical term “spontaneous abortion” in the article) when taking antidepressants during pregnancy. In research recently carried out by Motherisk, “theauthors conclude that there appears to be a small but statistically significant increase in the incidence of spontaneous abortion in women with antidepressant exposure during pregnancy …” Learn more by visiting the link above.
Miscarriage Risk Increases With Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy
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As with so many of these studies, it is important to consider that there was no verification of the medication having been taken by the medication-exposed group, no control for the effect of untreated mental illness in the group taking medication, and that the increased rate was still well within what is often considered to be a baseline 25% risk of miscarriage.
Thanks for this input Kelly!