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Prenatal Exposure to Antidepressants Shows No Cardiac-associated Risk in Offspring, Study Finds

02/07/2014 · by · in Uncategorized · Leave a comment

New research shows that antidepressant pharmacotherapy does not appear to pose a risk for cardiac defects in infants born to women taking the medicines during the first trimester of pregnancy—including those that are contraindicated for pregnant women. A research team led by Krista Huybrechts, Ph.D., of Harvard Medical School conducted a large-scalestudy with nearly 950,000 pregnant […]