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Women taking antidepressants such as Prozac during pregnancy are more likely to give birth to children with life-threatening high blood pressure problems, researchers say.
Women taking antidepressants such as Prozac during pregnancy are more likely to give birth to children with life-threatening high blood pressure problems, researchers say.
The risk doubles among those taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors - the most heavily prescribed antidepressants - in late pregnancy, they found.
Their babies are at greater risk of a rare but severe disease called persistent pulmonary hypertension, a rise in blood pressure in the lungs which can lead to heart failure.
Swedish researchers reviewed 1.6million births. Of 11,014 mothers who used antidepressants in late pregnancy, 33 babies (0.2 percent) had the disease after 33 weeks.
The risk is low but doctors should consider not prescribing antidepressants to mothers-to-be, the researchers told the British Medical Journal. - Daily Mail
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