Open AccessMaternal anthropometric determinants as risk markers of suicidality and severity of illness in women with postnatal depression
Author(s) -
Ameeya Kumar Nayak,
Hrishikesh B Nachane
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of postgraduate medicine/journal of postgraduate medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.405
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 0972-2823
pISSN - 0022-3859
DOI - 10.4103/jpgm.jpgm_541_18
Subject(s) - medicine , anthropometry , depression (economics) , psychiatry , poison control , suicide prevention , illness severity , injury prevention , severity of illness , pediatrics , medical emergency , economics , macroeconomics
Studies have shown nutrition to play a role in etiology of postnatal depression, but few risk markers have been developed for the same. Anthropometric determinants have not been sufficiently researched in relation to suicidality and severity of illness in women with postnatal depression.