Antidepressants in pregnancy pose little heart risk for fetus: study

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Antidepressants in pregnancy pose little heart risk for fetus: study

By Gene Emery NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Records from nearly a million women and their newborn children offer new evidence that common antidepressants taken during pregnancy do not increase the risk of having a baby with a heart defect. "I don't know if it will completely settle the debate over antidepressants during pregnancy, but I'm pleased to hear more support for the safety of these medicines in pregnancy," said Dr. Rebecca Starck. "We did not find any association for any of the antidepressant categories or the individual drugs we studied," lead author Dr. Krista Huybrechts of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston said. "It will be up to individual physicians and women to determine how much it will sway their opinion one way or the other." About 10 to 15 percent of pregnant women are diagnosed with depression, the researchers note, making the safety of the drugs an important issue.

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