Healio (4/26, Welsh) reports, “Among women with a history [of] depression, risk for postpartum depression was greater for those whose prior depression was associated with use of hormonal contraception, according to a cohort study.”
MedPage Today (4/26) reports that investigators found, “in the analysis of over 188,000 first-time mothers who had used hormonal contraception (HC) in the past, those with a history of HC-related depression had a 35% higher chance of experiencing postpartum depression than those with a history of depression not related to HC.” The findings were published online April 26 in JAMA Psychiatry.
Related Links:
— “Hormonal contraception-associated depression linked to higher postpartum depression risk “Erin T. Welsh, Healio, April 26, 2023