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Growing attention to depression during and after pregnancy — and to the association between depression and diabetes in the general population — led investigators to conduct a retrospective analysis of the relation between these two conditions in pregnant women who were enrolled in Medicaid for at least 6 months before and 12 months after giving birth. More than 11,000 women (mean age, 27; about 46% black) were assessed for depression and diabetes based on coded diagnoses or prescription of relevant medications.
Risk for perinatal depression in women who had prepregnancy or gestational diabetes was 15%, compared with 8% in women who did not have diabetes. In an analysis adjusted for age, race, gestational age at delivery, and cesarean deliver…