Researchers from Harvard University, as well as China, Sweden and Iceland, found women who develop perinatal depression are twice as likely to die from natural and unnatural causes.
The study shows that women who experience depression before, during or after pregnancy are more at risk of death from natural and unnatural causes. | Health
Women who experience depression during pregnancy or within a year after giving birth are 6 times more likely to die early, mostly by suicide, a new study finds.
Health and Fitness: Large cohort study, examining data from 2001 to 2018, involved over 86,500 women diagnosed with perinatal depression and more than 865,500 matched controls of the same age who gave birth in the same years
Women who suffer depression during or after pregnancy have a higher risk of death by both natural and unnatural causes, a new study of childbirth in Sweden published in The BMJ reports.