Journal
ARCHIVES OF WOMENS MENTAL HEALTH
Volume 17, Issue 3, Pages 213-219Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00737-014-0422-y
Keywords
Vitamin D; Postpartum blues; Perinatal mental health; Environmental exposure; Postnatal depression
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Funding
- Raine Medical Research Foundation
- University of Western Australia (UWA)
- Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
- UWA Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Science
- Women and Infants Research Foundation
- Curtin University
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) [963209, 211912, 003209, 353514]
- Australian Health Management
- Telstra Foundation
- Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation
- National Heart Foundation of Australia
- Beyond Blue
- Australian Rotary Health
- NHMRC
- NHMRC Career Development Fellowship [1004065]
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Pregnancy is a time of vulnerability for vitamin D insufficiency, and there is an emerging literature associating low levels of 25(OH)-vitamin D with depressive symptoms. However, the link between 25(OH)-vitamin D status in pregnancy and altered risk of postnatal depressive symptoms has not been examined. We hypothesise that low levels of 25(OH)-vitamin D in maternal serum during pregnancy will be associated with a higher incidence of postpartum depressive symptoms. We prospectively collected sera at 18 weeks gestation from 796 pregnant women in Perth (1989-1992) who were enrolled in the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study and measured levels of 25(OH)-vitamin D. Women reported postnatal depressive symptoms at 3 days post-delivery. Women in the lowest quartile for 25(OH)-vitamin D status were more likely to report a higher level of postnatal depression symptoms than women who were in the highest quartile for vitamin D, even after accounting for a range of confounding variables including season of birth, body mass index and sociodemographic factors. Low vitamin D during pregnancy is a risk factor for the development of postpartum depression symptoms.
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