Due to hormonal cataclysm, depression is often occurred during pregnancy. In a new study by researchers from the University of Montreal, it is found that pregnant women who take antidepressant have a higher risk of suffering a miscarriage. The risk of miscarriage is increased by sixty-eight percent in those pregnant women who take the drug.
Depression is very common during pregnancy and one in thirty women taking antidepressant during their pregnancy period. But the abrupt halt of treatment can consequence in depressive degeneration that can put the life of mother and baby in danger. The new study wanted to resolve if there was a connection between antidepressant uses in pregnancy with risk of miscarriage.
Researchers investigated the data of five thousand one hundred and twenty-four women who were verified miscarriage up to twenty weeks of conception. They found that about six percent women who had taken antidepressants during pregnancy had miscarried. Discriminating serotonin reuptake inhibitors, especially paroxetine and also venlafaxine were connected with increased risk of miscarriage.
A combination of different antidepressants also doubled the risk of miscarriage. Those results which suggested an overall class effected of discriminating serotonin reuptake inhibitors were highly robust given the large number of users studied, explained a senior author Dr Anick Birard, from the University of Montreal.
The researchers advise doctors to discuss the risk and benefits of antidepressants to women with child bearing age taking antidepressants. The study could not reach at specific conclusion and there were less double the number of miscarriages in women exposed to antidepressants compared to those not exposed, explained Ms Adrienne Einarson, Assistant Director of the Moth risk Program at The Hospital for Sick Children.