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One knows the baby blues, that occur after baby's birth. But it is necessary to mistrust the decreases of state of mind also during pregnancy: this depress can increase the risks of premature births.
To arrive from it to this conclusion, the scientists examined close to 800 births in San Francisco. They could show that the risk of premature birth was correlated directly with the presence of depressive symptoms. They even showed that more the symptoms were serious, more one increased the odds of childbirth before term. The mechanism is unknown, but the depression could modify them hormonal, and to act indirectly on the placenta.
However the researchers showed that depresses it of pregnancy is far from being insignificant. In their survey, 41% of the women interrogated to the 10th week would have symptoms bound to the depression. This trouble would be thus under-diagnosed. Of course, the question arises then of the treatment and notably of the hold of antidepressants during pregnancy... It would be in any case necessary to follow better and to come with the women enclosed during their pregnancy. Because if the medical exams are numerous, one is not interested sufficiently in their mental health. Yet the impact is real on the progress of pregnancy.
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