Antidepressants in pregnancy 'increase risk of babies suffering heart problems'

[Celebration]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/women_shealth/3512835/Antidepressants-in-pregnancy-increase-risk-of-babies-suffering-heart-problems.html

Expectant mothers who took Prozac were four times as likely as other women to have a baby with a heart abnormality and those who took Seroxat were three times as likely.

The study also found women who smoked more than ten cigarettes a day gave birth to five times as many babies with major heart problems as non-smokers.

But the scientists who carried out the study insist that many heart abnormalities can be easily treated and warned women not to come off medication for depression unless they were advised to do so by their doctor.

Although some of the heart conditions were serious, others resolved themselves without the need for treatment, the study found.

However, the researchers, made up of teams from Israel, Italy and Germany, do suggest that women on Prozac be given scans during the second trimester of their pregnancy to check for possible heart abnormalities.

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

1. I stopped reading at the second paragraph. They ALWAYS

bring up smoking.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

2. More horrible journalism.

So they found a correlation between 2 specific anti-depressants and heart conditions some of which were serious and then the title says "Antidepressants in pregnancy 'increase risk of babies suffering heart problems'" Someone should be fired.

David

[varkam]

3. That's actually pretty good for the Telegraph.

IIRC, on the suicide / cell phone tower correlation that they found, they just started making shit up. For instance, giving their source the title "Doctor" when, in fact, he had no such qualification or degree.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

4. Good to know.

[xchrom]

5. articles posted here should have more to do with actual medical science than bad journalism. nt