Perinatal depression and risk of mortality: nationwide, register based study in Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether women with perinatal depression are at an increased risk of death compared with women who did not develop the disorder, and compared with full sisters.

Design

Nationwide, register based study.

Setting

Swedish national registers, 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2018.

Participants

86 551 women with a first ever diagnosis of perinatal depression ascertained through specialised care and use of antidepressants, and 865 510 women who did not have perinatal depression were identified and matched based on age and calendar year at delivery. To address familial confounding factors, comparisons were made between 270 586 full sisters (women with perinatal depression (n=24 473) and full sisters who did not have this disorder (n=246 113)), who ga

SUBMITTER: Hagatulah N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10777893 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature