Perinatal weight and risk of prenatal and postpartum depressive symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Prepregnancy obesity and weight changes accompanying pregnancy (gestational weight gain and postpartum weight retention) may be associated with risk of maternal depressive symptoms during pregnancy and in the postpartum. The few studies that have examined these relationships report conflicting findings.

Methods

We studied pregnant (n = 2112) and postpartum (n = 1686) women enrolled in Project Viva. We used self-reported prepregnancy and postpartum weight and measured prenatal weight to calculate prepregnancy body mass index (BMI), gestational weight gain (GWG), and postpartum weight retention at 6 months after birth. We assessed elevated depressive symptoms (EDS) with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (≥13 on 0-30 scale) at midpregnancy and 6 months postpartum

SUBMITTER: Ertel KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5763569 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature