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Mid-pregnancy pollution exposure linked to postpartum depression
New work finds that exposure to particular pollutants during pregnancy is associated with depression up to three years postpartum.
For such a common condition — and one that has been linked to poorer outcomes for both the baby and the parent — postpartum depression has been relatively under-studied, write the authors of new work in Science of the Total Environment. But further work is now needed to replicate these findings, and explore exactly how these pollutants affect pregnant women — as well as to investigate whether the results from this particular group of participants (mostly low socioeconomic status, mostly Latina/Hispanic residents of Los Angeles) will be the same in other populations. Read the paper in full: Hu, Y., Niu, Z., Eckel, S. P., Toledo-Corral, C., Yang, T., Chen, X., Vigil, M., Pavlovic, N., Lurmann, F., Garcia, E., Lerner, D., Lurvey, N., Grubbs, B., Al-Marayati, L., Johnston, J., Dunton, G. F., Farzan, S. F., Habre, R., Breton, C., & Bastain, T. M. (2024).
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