Predictors of Postpartum Depression: A Comprehensive Review of the Last Decade of Evidence

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 591-603

  Guintivano, Jerry ^a   Manuck, Tracy ^b   Meltzer Brody, Samantha ^a  

^a Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

biomarker; molecular; postpartum depression; predictors; risk assessment

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; BREXANOLONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; OXYTOCIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ELTANOLONE; INTERLEUKIN 6;

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MATERNAL AGE; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEPRESSION; PREDICTION; PREMATURE LABOR; RACE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THYROID FUNCTION; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; MENTAL DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL CLASS; THYROID FUNCTION TEST;

BETA-ENDORPHIN; BIOMARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN-6; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MATERNAL AGE; MENTAL DISORDERS; OXYTOCIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANOLONE; PREMATURE BIRTH; RACE FACTORS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 85050964993     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: 15325520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GRF.0000000000000368     Document Type: Review

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