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Study: postpartum depression risk not increased in HIV patients.(Obstetrics)
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- HIV-infected women were at no greater risk for postpartum depression than were their HIV-negative counterparts in a recent study, Nyota A. Peace, M.D., reported at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology.
The retrospective case-control study included 26 HIV-infected pregnant women. There were also 52 uninfected controls who were divided into two groups--those with a high-risk pregnancy and those with a low-risk pregnancy.
The case patients and controls were matched for age, race, and study period, and did not differ in regard to education levels, substance abuse, and history of depression, according to Dr. Peace of New Jersey Medical School, Newark.
High-risk control patients had the highest mean depression scores (8 out of a possible 30 on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale), but the scores did not differ significantly ...
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