Postpartum depressive symptoms: The B-vitamin link

Mental Health in Family Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-13

  Blunden, Christelle H ^a   Inskip, Hazel M ^b   Robinson, Sian M ^b   Cooper, Cyrus ^b   Godfrey, Keith M ^b   Kendrick, Tony R ^c  

^a GP   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

B vitamin intake; Folate status; Postpartum depression

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; PYRIDOXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; RISK FACTOR; VITAMIN INTAKE;

EID: 84865259359     PISSN: 1756834X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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