Antidepressants Can Raise Blood Pressure During Pregnancy

Hypertension can cause problems for both mother and child. By ANAHAD O'CONNOR Published: April 09, 2012 Taking antidepressants during pregnancy raises the risk of high blood pressure in expectant mothers, a new study shows. Antidepressants are one ofthe most commonly used medications in pregnancy, and hypertension can cause problems for both mother and child. About one in five women suffer from depression during pregnancy, and up to 14 percent of those women end up using an antidepressant medicationto treat it. Though the drugs are commonly prescribed to pregnant women, there has not been much research on the effect theycan have on a mother's health. The new study, published in The British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, looked at more than 13,000 pregnant women, 1,200 of whom had pregnancy-induced hypertension with no history of the condition before they became pregnant. The researchers found that women taking antidepressants of any kind had a 53 percent greater risk of high blood pressure. Those who were taking Paxil, which belongs to the most commonly prescribed classof antidepressants, known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRI's, saw their risk rise even higher, by 81 percent/

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