Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy Linked to Childhood Obesity and Diabetes

A new study has found that women who take antidepressants during pregnancy could be unknowingly disposing their infants to type 2 diabetes and obesity. The study finds a correlation between the use of the medication fluoxetine during pregnancy and an increased risk of obesity and diabetes in children. Currently, up to 20 per cent of woman in the United States and approximately seven per cent of Canadian women are prescribed an antidepressant during pregnancy.br ...

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