What is Postpartum depression?
What is Postpartum depression?
- Postpartum depression: Depression following childbirth, miscarriage or weaning.
- Postpartum depression: depression in women occurring usually shortly after the delivery of a child; degree of depression ranges from mild transient depression to neurotic or psychotic depressive disorders.
Source - Diseases Database
Postpartum depression is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Postpartum depression, or a subtype of Postpartum depression,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Postpartum depression: Introduction
Types of Postpartum depression:
Types of Postpartum depression:
Broader types of Postpartum depression:
How many people get Postpartum depression?
Prevalance of Postpartum depression: 10% of pregnancies.
Prevalance Rate of Postpartum depression: approx 1 in 679 or 0.15% or 400,000 people in USA [about data]
Prevalance of Postpartum depression:
Roughly 10% of pregnancies
result in postpartum depression (5) , which
can occur a few days or even months after delivery. (Source: excerpt from Postpartum Depression Fact Sheet: NWHIC)
Who gets Postpartum depression?
Patient Profile for Postpartum depression: Usually occurs within the first year after birth.
How serious is Postpartum depression?
Prognosis of Postpartum depression: Often temporary.
Complications of Postpartum depression:
see complications of Postpartum depression
Prognosis of Postpartum depression: Left untreated, symptoms may worsen and linger for as long as a year. This
physical disorder, however, can be diagnosed and its symptoms alleviated (7) . (Source: excerpt from Postpartum Depression Fact Sheet: NWHIC)
What causes Postpartum depression?
Causes of Postpartum depression: see causes of Postpartum depression
Risk factors for Postpartum depression:
see
risk factors for Postpartum depression
What are the symptoms of Postpartum depression?
Symptoms of Postpartum depression:
see symptoms of Postpartum depression
Complications of Postpartum depression:
see complications of Postpartum depression
Duration of Postpartum depression: PPD can last up to a year.
Postpartum depression: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Postpartum depression.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Postpartum depression.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Postpartum depression:
see treatments for Postpartum depression
Research for Postpartum depression:
see research for Postpartum depression
Organs Affected by Postpartum depression:
mental
Name and Aliases of Postpartum depression
Main name of condition: Postpartum depression
Other names or spellings for Postpartum depression:
PPD, postnatal depression, PND
Puerperal depression, Depression, postpartum
Source - Diseases Database
Progressive pseudorheumatoid arthropathy of childhood, Progressive pseudorheumatoid dysplasia, SEDT-PA, Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda with progressive arthropathy, Arthropathy, progressive pseudorheumatoid, of childhood, PPAC
Source - Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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