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Diabetes Raises Postpartum Depression Risk
Thursday April 9, 2009

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Pregnant women and new mothers who have diabetes are nearly twice as likely, according to a new study, to suffer from depression. In an examination of 11,000 pregnant women in New Jersey, researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston showed a link to all types of diabetes, including gestational diabetes. The findings were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.


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