Antidepressant use in pregnancy and the risk of cardiac defects.

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Published in N Engl J Med on June 19, 2014

Authors

Krista F Huybrechts1, Kristin Palmsten, Jerry Avorn, Lee S Cohen, Lewis B Holmes, Jessica M Franklin, Helen Mogun, Raisa Levin, Mary Kowal, Soko Setoguchi, Sonia Hernández-Díaz

Author Affiliations

1: From the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School (K.F.H., J.A., J.M.F., H.M., R.L., M.K., S.S.), the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health (K.P., S.H.-D.), the Center for Women's Mental Health, Massachusetts General Hospital (L.S.C.), and the Medical Genetics Unit, MassGeneral Hospital for Children (L.B.H.) - all in Boston; and Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC (S.S.).

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