New Method Can Predict 80 Percent Of Cases Of Postnatal Depression

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 09:35 in Health & Medicine

Worldwide, 13 percent of women who give birth suffer from postnatal depression, which causes a significant deterioration in a mother's quality of life and her ability to care for her baby. Now, Spanish researchers have developed a model to diagnose this illness with a predictive power of 80 percent -- the best result to date for this kind of depression.

Read the whole article on Science Daily

More from Science Daily

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net