Not exact matches
Using
data from the Danish National Birth Cohort in Denmark, researchers in the University of Adelaide's Robinson Research Institute studied the outcomes of 368 women who were
on antidepressants prior to becoming pregnant.
But some professionals say that this
data is not strong enough to indicate that parents should breastfeed
on antidepressant medications.
Although
antidepressants like SSRIs are transferred through breast milk, there is no
data on the long - term effects of exposure to SSRIs in breast milk, including the nervous system, so the benefit of taking the medication needs to outweigh the risk.
Collier and collaborator Katrina Paumier, an assistant professor of molecular medicine, began looking at previous patient
data to see if individuals who were
on antidepressants experienced any delay in their need to go
on a standard Parkinson's therapy called levodopa.
In the new study, perinatal epidemiologist Anick Bérard, at the University of Montreal in Canada, and colleagues used
data collected
on 145,456 infants born in Quebec between January 1998 and December 2009 to calculate the risk of autism among babies whose mothers had used one or more
antidepressants while pregnant.
These advances have had limited impact
on community care, with current
data indicating high unmet need28 - 30 and poorer quality and outcomes for community treatment compared with efficacy studies.31, 32 We address these gaps by evaluating a quality improvement intervention aimed at improving access to evidence - based treatments for depression (particularly CBT and
antidepressant medication) in primary care settings.
Assessments three and six months after the initial prescription included the 20 item depression scale
on the symptom checklist17 and the current depression module of the structured clinical interview for DSM - IV.18 From computerised pharmacy and visit
data we assessed
antidepressant treatment received (using previously developed and validated algorithms5) and follow up visits.