Impact of Maternal Depression on Infant Nutritional Status and Illness
Author(s) -
Atıf Rahman,
Zafar Iqbal,
James Bunn,
Hermione Lovel,
Richard Harrington
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
archives of general psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3636
pISSN - 0003-990X
DOI - 10.1001/archpsyc.61.9.946
Subject(s) - medicine , underweight , depression (economics) , pediatrics , pregnancy , cohort study , relative risk , prospective cohort study , cohort , birth weight , malnutrition , low birth weight , prenatal care , socioeconomic status , confidence interval , population , obesity , overweight , environmental health , genetics , biology , economics , macroeconomics
The risk for emotional and behavioral problems is known to be high among children of depressed mothers, but little is known about the impact of prenatal and postnatal depression on the physical health of infants.
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