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New Method Can Predict 80 Percent Of Cases Of Postnatal Depression

September 24, 2009 by

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.