No Relationship between Maternal Iron Status and Postpartum Depression in Two Samples in China

• Main Authors: Rinat Armony-Sivan (Author), Jie Shao (Author), Ming Li (Author), Gengli Zhao (Author), Zhengyan Zhao (Author), Guobing Xu (Author), Min Zhou (Author), Jianying Zhan (Author), Yang Bian (Author), Chai Ji (Author), Xing Li (Author), Yaping Jiang (Author), Zhixiang Zhang (Author), Blair J. Richards (Author), Twila Tardif (Author), Betsy Lozoff (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Maternal iron status is thought to be related to postpartum depressive symptoms. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between pre- and postnatal maternal iron status and depressive symptoms in pilot (n=137) and confirmatory (n=567) samples of Chinese women. Iron status w...