WOMEN who are diagnosed with perinatal depression during pregnancy or after childbirth are at higher risk of suicidal behaviour, and this heightened risk continues for many years after the birth of their child, according to research published in JAMA.
The team looked at the rate of attempted and completed suicide among nearly 90,000 women diagnosed with perinatal depression, and compared this with more than 850,000 women of similar demographics without a diagnosis of perinatal depression, reported JAMA.
The researchers say those with a perinatal depression diagnosis had a three times higher risk of suicidal behaviour, with the risk most elevated during the first year after diagnosis, and still present 18 years later.
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