12,13 Symptoms can last 1 year or longer, with 25% of women having symptoms at 1 year. Subject matter experts indicate that biologic, hormonal, and psychosocial issues are risk factors for postpartum mood disorders (table 5-11). 1 Among those women, about 15% will have a disabling, persistent condition, and a small percentage will develop postpartum psychosis. Recent discoveries concerning PPD’s pathophysiology offer tremendous hope to the approximately 400,000 women who develop it annually in the United States. Maternal postpartum depression (PPD), although common, disabling, and sometimes life-threatening, often remains undiagnosed and undertreated.
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