Sentences with phrase «maternal use of the antidepressant»
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«We have demonstrated for the first time in an animal model that maternal use of a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, resulted in increased fat accumulation and inflammation in the liver of the adult offspring, raising new concerns about the long - term metabolic complications in children born to women who take SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy,» says PhD student Nicole De Long, who presented this research on June 22nd at the joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and The Endocrine Society.
«Obesity and Type 2 diabetes in children is on the rise and there is the argument that it is related to lifestyle and availability of high calorie foods and reduced physical activity, but our study has found that maternal antidepressant use may also be a contributing factor to the obesity and diabetes epidemic,» said the study's senior investigator Alison Holloway, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at McMaster University.
«While it is known that these drugs can increase the risk of obesity in adults, it is unknown whether a woman's antidepressant use during pregnancy increases the risk of metabolic disturbances in her children,» Holloway says, adding the goal of their project was to determine whether maternal exposure to a commonly used antidepressant is related to the development of fatty liver, an outcome commonly seen with obesity, in the offspring.
The use of a single antidepressant in an open - trial design without a placebo control did not allow us to rule out that maternal remission was due to nonspecific treatment effects or whether the relation of maternal remission to children's outcomes may have been different if another medication or psychotherapy had been used.