some study of new of During Pregnancy has reveals that children are more likely to be born with persistent pulmonary hypertension (high blood pressure in the lungs) if the mother took anti-depressants during pregnancy.
The disease increases blood pressure in the lungs causing:
- shortness of breath
- dizziness
- fainting
- and difficulty breathing
The researchers found that those who filled out a prescription were primarily older mothers who smoked. In addition, 54,184 mothers not taking any medication were identified as having historicallyin the past undergone psychiatric diagnosis.
n the study a total of one,618,255 singleton births were included. In early pregnancy around 17,000 of the mothers filled out a prescription for anti-depressants & about 11,000 in late pregnancy.
In the coursework of the inquiry the researchers took in to account factors, such as year of birth, birth weight, gestational age at birth, persistent pulmonary hypertension, maternal smoking, BMI (in early pregnancy), & maternal diseases including arthritis, lupus, pre-eclampsia, malignancies, & bowel disease.
The researchers examined several drugs mothers used, including fluvoxamine, fluoxetine, paroxetine, sertraline, citalopram, escitalopram, & fluvoxamine. They found that fluvoxamine was never used & not of the babies with persistent pulmonary hypertension were exposed to this drug.
For babies of females using anti-depressant in the coursework of pregnancy, being small for gestational age, or being born by C-section did not influence the chances of having the disease.
The team discovered that 33 babies (0.2%) out of 11,014 mothers who used anti-depressants in late pregnancy were born with persistent pulmonary hypertension. In addition only 32 babies (less than 0.2%) out of the 17,053 mothers who used anti-depressants in the coursework of early pregnancy were diagnosed with the disease, while a total of 114 babies whose mothers had historicallyin the past been diagnosed with a mental disease had persistent pulmonary hypertension.
