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Psychosis hits 1 in 1,000 new moms, study says: Universal screening urged after childbirth.
Byline: Ronald Kotulak
Dec. 6--Within three months after giving birth for the first time, 1 out of 1,000 women suffered from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression or another psychotic condition severe enough that she was hospitalized, Danish researchers found by examining hundreds of thousands of health records.
The results of their study provide startling evidence that truly debilitating postpartum psychoses occur more frequently than many people may suspect, putting mothers at risk of hurting themselves or their infants.
Reported in Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the research was accompanied by an editorial calling for universal screening programs that would check for mental problems in new mothers.
The results underscore the potential for danger after childbirth, when a sharp drop in levels of key hormones like estrogen and progesterone may trigger mental disorders in susceptible women.
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