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American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Poor sleep is independently associated with depression in postpartum women
July 15th, 2009
A study in the July 1 issue of the journal SLEEP suggests that postpartum depression may aggravate an already impaired sleep quality, as experiencing difficulties with sleep is a symptom of depression. Twenty-one percent of depressed postpartum women included in the study reported having also been depressed during pregnancy and 46 percent reported at least one previous depressive episode prior to conception, suggesting that new mothers diagnosed with postpartum depression are not merely reporting symptoms of chronic sleep deprivation. Results indicate that two months after delivery, poor sleep was associated with depression when adjusted for other significant risk...
Source: Biotech Week (2009-07-15)
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