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A Danish study out in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine asserts that women taking an SSRI anti-depressant while pregnant had double the risk of having a pre-term baby and had almost two and one-half times the risk of having their baby wind up admitted to a neo-natal ICU.

The study comes on the heels of an earlier study this year linking anti-depressant use during pregnancy to premature births.

The SSRI portion of the study was small–it involved 329 women who were taking SSRIs–so I don’t think it’s a nail in the coffin type of study. But with all the studies that have come out this year showing just how tricky anti-depressant use is, it’s another brick in the wall, so to speak. Last month, a study came out linking anti-depressants to birth defects. Earlier this year, another study linked long-term anti-depressant use to sudden cardiac death in women. Another study linked long-term anti-depressant use to increased diabetes risk.

At a minimum, people have got to be very, very careful when taking anti-depressants.

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