研究发现孕期抑郁症比产后更常见

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新的研究表明,孕期抑郁症比产后抑郁症更为常见。这项研究结果发表在本周的《英国医学杂志》上。

布里斯托大学的乔纳森·埃文斯及其同事分析了超过9000名孕妇的情绪波动,这些孕妇记录了她们在孕期和产后的精神状态。该团队对照公认的抑郁量表测量了所有报告的抑郁症状。他们发现,与普遍认为怀孕可以预防抑郁症的观点相反,抑郁评分实际上在孕期达到峰值,大约在32周左右。作者指出,由于症状的严重程度在分娩前后没有差异,因此产前抑郁症在产后可能并不比孕期更常见。

尽管其后果尚未完全明确,但产前抑郁症可能对胎儿产生负面影响。事实上,孕期抑郁情绪与其他因素有关,如低出生体重和早产。因此,作者指出,识别和治疗孕期抑郁症可能不仅对母亲重要,而且对孩子未来的健康也至关重要。

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大众科学 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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