All-Cause Mortality in Women With Severe Postpartum Psychiatric Disorders.

CONCLUSIONS: Women with severe postpartum psychiatric disorders had increased MRRs compared with mothers without psychiatric diagnoses, and the first year after diagnosis represents a time of particularly high relative risk for suicide in this vulnerable group. PMID: 26940804 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The American Journal of Psychiatry - March 4, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Johannsen BM, Larsen JT, Laursen TM, Bergink V, Meltzer-Brody S, Munk-Olsen T Tags: Am J Psychiatry Source Type: research