Study into whether antidepressants could be partly to blame for birth defects finds there is a link with certain SSRIs but not all of them, and also that risk is low
Antidepressants such as Prozac are linked to a small risk of birth defects when taken by pregnant women, according to new research.
There have been claims in recent years that women taking some of the modern antidepressants of the class known as SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) have had babies with birth defects. A team of researchers based in the US and Canada have investigated data on nearly 18,000 women whose children were born with problems – including brain and skull malformations and heart defects – to try to establish whether antidepressants might be partly to blame. They compared the data with information on nearly 10,000 women whose babies were born without defects.
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