BMJ 2005;331 (3 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7528.0-a
Abortion of unwanted first pregnancy may not increase risk of depression
Women who terminate an unintended first pregnancy don't seem to get more depressed than those who decide to carry the pregnancy to term. Schmiege and Russo (p 1303) re-analysed the data from a 1970s longitudinal cohort study of more than 1200 women and found discrepancies with the previous report of the study, which concluded that termination of unwanted first pregnancy increased the risk of depression. The authors put the inconsistency of results down to differences in coding.
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