20% of woman in the U.S. are prescribed an antidepressant during pregnancy which may lead to childhood obesity and diabetes.
– “We have demonstrated for the first time in an animal model that maternal use of a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, resulted in increased fat accumulation and inflammation in the liver of the adult offspring, raising new concerns about the long-term metabolic complications in children born to women who take SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy,”
* June 22nd at the joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and The Endocrine Society
– http://healthresearchreport.me/2014/06/23/20-of-woman-in-the-u-s-are-prescribed-an-antidepressant-during-pregnancy-which-may-lead-to-childhood-obesity-and-diabetes/