Antidepressant medication and spontaneous abortion: "No significant association"? Clinically significant association!

JAMA Psychiatry

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1373-1374

  Tufanaru, Catalin ^a   Jureidini, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

BIRTH DEFECT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL SMOKING; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

EID: 84890017013     PISSN: 2168622X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.2274     Document Type: Letter

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